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Susan Sontag: Depression is melancholy...

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

Source: Illness As Metaphor, ch. 7, 1978.
-- Susan Sontag, (Jan 16 1933-2004), US author, critic; She was one of the most influential contemporary American critics, utilizing new sensibility to evaluate art.


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