ThursdayJan 08, 2026
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Susan Sontag (January 16, 1933 - December 28, 2004) was an American essayist, novelist, filmmaker, and activist.
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.
The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions.
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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