15-Year-Old Susan Sontag on the Explosive Elasticity of the Self
The Self is a Project // Susan Sontag
🟠Without effort, we shrink into habits — into narrower versions of ourselves.
🟠Fiction splits us open, teaching us to care in new directions.
🟠Great novels aren’t just stories — they’re an education of feeling.
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instagram.comOn one hand, I know the self is a made-up concept of the mind, that identity should be kept small, and that trying to pin myself down usually does more harm than good. On the other hand, when I sit down to write, I feel like every sentence disproves this