I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformat…

Susan Sontag
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I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation. ✨ Susan Sontag (2012). As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980, p.357, Macmillan
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