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"For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied."

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"A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning."

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"Depression is melancholy minus its charms -- the animation, the fits."

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"Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance."

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"With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the character causes the disease -- because it has not expressed itself. Passion moves inward, striking and blighting the deepest cellular recesses."

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"Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been -- what people needed protection from. Now nature tamed, endangered, mortal -- needs to be protected from people."

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"Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style -- but a particular kind of style. It is love of the exaggerated."

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"Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life -- its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness -- conjoin to dull our sensory faculties."

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"Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future."

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"The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons."

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