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Hafez
“Now that your worry has proved such an unlucrative business,
Why not find a better job?”
Hafez, The Poetry Pharmacy Returns: More Prescriptions for Courage, Healing and Hope

Susan Sontag
“How can I describe my life to you? I think a lot, listen to music. I’m fond of flowers”
Susan Sontag, Death Kit

Hafez
“A day of Silence
Can be a pilgrimage in itself.

A day of Silence
Can help you listen
To the Soul play
Its marvelous lute and drum.

Is not most talking
A crazed defense of a crumbling fort?

I thought we came here
To surrender in Silence,

To yield to Light and Happiness,

To Dance within,
In celebration of Love's Victory”
Hafez, I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy

Susan Sontag
“Feeling of discontinuity as a person. My various selves—how do they all come together? And anxiety at moments of transition from one “role” to another. Will I make it fifteen minutes from now? Be able to step into, inhabit the person I’m supposed to be? This is felt as an infinitely hazardous leap, no matter how often it’s successfully executed.”
Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

Susan Sontag
“On Keeping a Journal.

Superficial to understand the journal as just a receptacle for one’s private, secret thoughts—like a confidante who is deaf, dumb, and illiterate. In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could do to any person; I create myself.

The journal is a vehicle for my sense of selfhood. It represents me as emotionally and spiritually independent. Therefore (alas) it does not simply record my actual, daily life but rather—in many cases—offers an alternative to it.”
Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

155853 Goodreads România — 3550 members — last activity Jan 27, 2026 12:03PM
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Bine ați venit în clubul de lectură Read-A-Thone Romania! ❤️️
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1218 The Next Best Book Club — 25977 members — last activity Jan 29, 2026 06:14PM
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