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MY LIBRARY IS AN ARCHIVE OF LONGINGS

“My library is an archive of longings.”

Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

1 December 2014

Writer Susan Sontag shown Jan. 11, 1964. (AP Photo)

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