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At the Existentialist Café

by Sarah Bakewell

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“As it happened, I was no longer interested in literature as a form of snobbery or even self-definition. I had no desire to prove that one book was better than another; in fact, if I read something I admired, I found myself increasingly disinclined to mention it at all. What I knew personally to be true had come to seem unrelated to the process of persuading others. I did not, any longer, want to persuade anyone of anything.”
― Rachel Cusk, Outline

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“I vulgarize my feelings by speaking of them too readily to others.”
― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

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“I am only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.”
― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

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“My library is an archive of longings.”
― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

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“Philosophy is an art form—art of thought or thought as art”
― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

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