Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged, literature is freedom. (Susan Sontag)

Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged, literature is freedom.

Susan Sontag

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