{"quotes":[{"text":"He stopped at an intersection, panting, rubbing at the twinge in his hamstrings, looking around, though he knew no cars were coming in either direction.Dropping forward at the waist Martin admitted that he was fucking himself up. Dr Leonowsky told him: hurting yourself is an articulation of self-disgust. It helps no one, prevents nothing. This wasn’t a glorious loss of control, he was fooling himself, it was self-harm.","author":"Denise Mina","tags":["pain","self-disgust","shame"],"id":63546,"author_id":"Denise+Mina"},{"text":"In this image (watching sensual murder through a peephole) Lorrain embodies the criminal delight of decadent art. The watcher who records the crimes (both the artist and consumer of art) is constructed as marginal, powerless to act, and so exculpated from action, passive subject of a complex pleasure, condemning and yet enjoying suffering imposed on others, and condemning himself for his own enjoyment. In this masochistic celebration of disempowerment, the sharpest pleasure recorded is that of the death of some important part of humanity. The dignity of human life is the ultimate victim of Lorrain's art, thrown away on a welter of delighted self-disgust.","author":"Jennifer Birkett","tags":["artists","consumer","decadence","decadent","diginty","disempowerment","masochism","murder","self-disgust","voyeurism"],"id":159393,"author_id":"Jennifer+Birkett"},{"text":"Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding the mirror.'I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might blame themselves.Mephi replied, 'History suggests, not until they are made to.","author":"David Mitchell","tags":["blame","cloud-atlas","disgust","hate","history","postmodern","postmodernism","reflection","self-discovery","self-disgust"],"id":362115,"author_id":"David+Mitchell"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":3,"pages":1}}