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Susan Sontag1933–2004

One of my oldest crusades is against the distinction between thought and feeling… which is really the basis of all anti-intellectual views: the heart and the head, thinking and feeling, fantasy and judgment.

Susan Sontag on emotion

“Susan Sontag: The Rolling Stone Interview” with Jonathan Cott (1978; published 4 October 1979)

Emotion Thinking

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I am very conscious of the fact that our feelings and strivings are often contradictory and obscure and that they cannot be expressed in easy and simple formulas.
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