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Art is not consciousness per se, but rather its antidote- evolved from within consciousness itself.

Susan Sontag

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Susan Sontag
Age: 71 †
Born: 1933
Born: January 16
Died: 2004
Died: December 28
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Film Critic
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New York City
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Susan Rosenblatt
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