Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.
- Susan Sontag
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.
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