"Sanity is a cozy lie."
"As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb. To acknowledge the existence of the incorrigible."
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Source: Susan Sontag (2013). “Regarding the Pain of Others”, p.98, Macmillan
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