#our

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#await #awareness #because #been #catastrophes

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#analogy #art #commentary #criticism #even

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: "Thou shalt not ration justice." ↗

— Sophocles

#democracy #justice #keep #must #our

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#militants #only #signs #surrealism #thought

Sometimes when I watch a TV season, your favorite shows die quickly. And then sometimes it's not your favorite, and they live on for 12 years. ↗

— David Spade

#favorite #i #live #quickly #season

Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly. ↗

— Sophocles

#grieve #hate #much #nor #them

Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies? ↗

— Sophocles

#mockery #our #sweetest

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way. ↗

— Sophocles

#depends #our #way #wisdom

Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is. ↗

— Sophocles

#cure #heavier #hush #ill #make

Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain? ↗

— Sophocles

#dying #evils #gain #how #i