Philosophy: Susan Sontag: Journal, age 16

"I know what I want to do with my life ... I want to sleep with many people— I want to live and hate to die—I will not teach, or get a master's ... I don't intend to let my intellect dominate me, and the last thing I want to do is worship knowledge or people who have knowledge! ... I intend to do everything ... I shall anticipate pleasure everywhere and find it, too, for it is everywhere! I shall involve myself wholly ... everything matters! ... I am alive ... I am beautiful ... what else is there?"

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[TheFaustianMan]

"I don't intend to let my intellect dominate me, and the last thing I want to do is worship knowledge or people who have knowledge!"

Well....two outta three ain't bad.

[greatsea]

@PaashRevolutionary -- She said this when she was sixteen asshole. What were you saying were you were sixteen? Care to publish some of your teenage letters on youtube so we can make sweeping judgments about you based on them.

[PaashRevolutionary]

" I am alive ... I am beautiful ... what else is there?" - what an entitled narcissistic self-absorbed dilettante, no wonder she turned up to be a female supremacist and icon for female supremacist movements.