collecting books in that way was ‘like marrying someone in order to sleep with him.’

Susan Sontag on love, marriage, her sexuality and more.

Well, well, well...

I finally finished reading “Reborn” by Susan Sontag, a collection of her diaries and journals from 1947 - 1963.

What can I say, it was an intense journey.

A thousand emotions, reflections, and unanswered questions created an intriguing and tense reading experience.

We are spectators of Sontag's inner world from the age of 14 to 30.

I saw myself a lot in her thoughts, in the contrasting emotions she felt, as she navigated the challenges of love and life and sought to understand her own actions and disappointments.

Quite a journey, as you can imagine.

That's why I took my time with it, spending a couple of months reading it off and on while tackling other books as well.

But more than anything, at a certain point, I began to write down and save all the quotes that spoke to me, dividing them into different themes, and today's article is nothing more than a tribute to Susan Sontag’s inner world, in her own words.

There is so much material that I decided to split it into two par…