Susan Sontag, from “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963″
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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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... And what is it to be young in years and suddenly wakened to the anguish, the urgency of life?
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“The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes. It is equivalent to a sense of abusing the present.”
― Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
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Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
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— Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
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Maybe you made one already but i wanted to request a web on mary oliver's quote "mostly i want to be kind"
Thank you💫🌸
S. Bear Bergman, Your Faithful Servant, from Butch Is A Noun
Kaveh Akbar, Against Hell
Mary Oliver, Dogfish
@seravph, I THINK I AM GOING TO CUT MY HAIR
Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022) dirs. Daniels
Billie Letts, Where the Heart Is
@chaoticsandstorm, we’ll burn that bridge when we get to it
Maria Popova, ‘Naomi Shihab Nye’s Beloved Ode to Kindness, Animated’ for The Marginalian
Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
Patti Smith, Woolgathering
Danusha Laméris, Small Kindnesses
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Superficial to understand the journal as just a receptacle for one’s private, secret thoughts—like a confidante who is deaf, dumb, and illiterate. In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could do to any person; I create myself.
Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; October 27, 2009)
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Susan Sontag, from “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963″
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It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
—Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals & Notebooks 1947-1963
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... -she didn't want Dad, in the other room, to hear her, and the noise of each choked wave of tears was like a giant hiccup--what cowards people are to involve themselves, rather, to passively let themselves be involved, by convention, in sterile relationships--what rotten, dreary, miserable lives they lead--
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"Emotionally, I wanted to leave. Intellectually, I wanted to leave. As always, I seemed to enjoy punishing myself." Susan Sontag, from “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963″ (insp)
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"I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it."
If it's meant to be then it will be,
so I met him there and told him, "I believe", singing "if it's meant to be then it will be",
I forgive it all as it comes back to me.
my thoughts for the new year, 2024.
Susan Sontag, "Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963" // Joan of Arc, John Everett Millais // Ethel Cain, "Sun Bleached Flies" // @davidshrigleydrawing, found on Twitter // Taylor Swift, "You're on Your Own Kid" // Unknown creator, photo from Pinterest
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