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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.

Susan Sontag
Spiritual, Insanity, Feelings
Susan Sontag (1979). “Illness as metaphor”, Vintage
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.