“My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another.”

—  Susan Sontag

Source: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

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American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist 1933–2004

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