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What makes me feel strong? Being in love and work. I must work.
Susan Sontag
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Susan Sontag
Age: 71 †
Born: 1933
Born: January 16
Died: 2004
Died: December 28
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Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.
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The only ideals allowed are healthy ones - those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing.
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