"The romantic treatment of death asserts that people were made singular, made more interesting, by their illnesses."
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"Communism is fascism with a human face."
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"Reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras."
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"Most of my reading is rereading."
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"Ours is a society in which secrets of private life that, formerly, you would have given nearly anything to conceal, you now clamor to get on a television show to reveal."
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"A man never forgets his body the way a woman does, because a man is pushing his body, a part of his body, forward, to make the act of love happen. He brings the jut of his body into the act of love, then takes it back, when it has had its way."
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"To collect photographs is to collect the world."
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"The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a new, more complex relation to "the serious." One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious."
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"Everyone who lives in an industrialized society is obliged gradually to give up the past, but in certain countries, such as the United States and Japan, the break with the past has been particularly traumatic."
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"This is the beauty that emerges from self-confidence, class confidence. That says, I am not born to please. I am born to be pleased."
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"My ignorance is not charming."
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"Everything should be understood, and anything can be transformed - that is the modern view."
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"Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and am more than a little happy."
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"Everything was simple, physical, painful, exalting. The world consisted of the four elements - land and water, firepower and distancing air."
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"The single most amazing phenomenon is the discrediting of idealism."
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"The danger, when not too dangerous, fascinate."
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"Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic."
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"There is an understandable vindictiveness in people who come from Communist countries. They want to keep telling us that we were fools to think that we could make radical changes in our society. Though I understand their dismay, respect their suffering and don't understand the gullibility of some people who don't take in how repressive these societies are, I still think it's important to keep people of all kinds as active in civic matters as possible."
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"Now the new things happening in France don't interest me."
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"I love to read the way people love to watch television."
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