It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering t…

Susan Sontag
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It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades. ✨ AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontagm, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ch. 4, (p. 125), 1989.
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