Any sensibility which can be crammed into the mold of a system, or han…

Susan Sontag
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Any sensibility which can be crammed into the mold of a system, or handled with the rough tools of proof, is no longer sensibility at all. It has hardened into an idea. ✨ Susan Sontag (2014). A Susan Sontag Reader, p.160, Macmillan
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