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Susan Sontag: Illness is the...

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Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.

Source: Illness as Metaphor.
-- Susan Sontag, (Jan 16 1933-2004), US author, critic; She was one of the most influential contemporary American critics, utilizing new sensibility to evaluate art.


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