#reborn: journals and notebooks 1947-1963

[macrolit]

Emotionally, I wanted to stay. Intellectually, I wanted to leave. As always, I seemed to enjoy punishing myself.

Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963 Susan Sontag

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[flowerytale]

Susan Sontag, from “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963″

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[calyptapis]

Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

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Notes on Marriage

To be presented to my great grandchildren, on my golden wedding anniversary? "Great Grandma, you had feelings?" "Yeh. It was a disease I acquired in my adolescence. But I got over it."

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[orclnght]

dunamis

“All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.”

Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

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[nerdywordyblog]

In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself. The journal is a vehicle for my sense of selfhood. It represents me as emotionally and spiritually independent. Therefore (alas) it does not simply record my actual, daily life but rather — in many cases — offers an alternative to it.

Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

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[flowerytale]

Susan Sontag, from “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963″

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