In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings and "critical" discontent, is insanity.


Illness as metaphor (ed. Vintage, 1979)

Susan Sontag Quotes

In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of spiritual feelings and...

In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of spiritual feelings and...

In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of spiritual feelings and...

In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of spiritual feelings and...