It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing t…

Susan Sontag
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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 (2009). Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963, p.264, Macmillan
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