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“ ”Alone, alone. I am alone – I ache … Yet for the first time, despite all the anguish and the reality problems, I’m here. I feel tranquil, whole, ADULT.
About Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag (16 January 1933 – 28 December 2004) was an American essayist, literary critic, cultural theorist, and political activist.
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Additional quotes by Susan Sontag
Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power are always an index of how much is not understood about the physical terrain of a disease.
Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us.
Contempt
The contempt I feel for others — for myself different, less internal than guilt.
It’s not that I think (or have ever thought) I was bad — through and through. I think I’m unattractive, unloveable, because I’m incomplete. It’s not what I am that’s wrong, it’s that I’m not more (responsive, alive, generous, considerate, original, sensitive, brave etc.).
My profoundest experience is of indifference, rather than censure.