My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to s…

Susan Sontag
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My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another. ✨ Susan Sontag (2009). Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963, p.174, Macmillan
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My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another. ✨ Susan Sontag (2009). Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963, p.174, Macmillan

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