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Susan Sontag Essayist, Critic, Activist
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"'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated."

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Rowan Williams Theologian
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"And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm."

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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
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"Form and formless are intertwined in this world. The formless can only be expressed in form and form can only be thought with the formless."

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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
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"Two attempts have been made in the world to found social life: the one was upon religion, and the other was upon social necessity. The one was founded upon spirituality, the other upon materialism; the one upon transcendentalism, the other upon realism."

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Sylvia Plath Poet, Novelist
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"I do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit. I have none of the selfless love of my mother. I have none of the plodding, practical love. . . . . I am, to be blunt and concise, in love only with myself, my puny being with its small inadequate breasts and meager, thin talents. I am capable of affection for those who reflect my own world."

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Sylvia Plath Poet, Novelist
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"Feel oddly barren. My sickness is when words draw in their horns and the physical world refuses to be ordered, recreated, arranged and selected. I am a victim of it then, not a master."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"Pure souls, didn’t I tell you not to be seduced by this colorful world for I am the Ultimate Painter."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"I am so happy, I cannot be contained in the world; But like a spirit, I am hidden from the eyes of the world."

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