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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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" Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech. "

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" Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material. "

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" 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. "

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