Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished an…

Susan Sontag
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Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen closely, you may need to silence everything in your own room, you can hear the sounds of that other room inside your head. ✨ Susan Sontag (2001). In America: A Novel, p.27, Macmillan
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Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen closely, you may need to silence everything in your own room, you can hear the sounds of that other room inside your head. ✨ Susan Sontag (2001). In America: A Novel, p.27, Macmillan

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