Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I ex…

Susan Sontag
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Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to! ✨ Susan Sontag (2009). Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963, p.8, Macmillan
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