
born to stand out: grace bol for porter mag oct. 2018

Vénus Khoury-Ghata, tr. by Marilyn Hacker, from “Autumn Preceded Summer,”
“A crisis of self-respect. What makes me feel strong? Being in love and work. I must work. I’m being wasted by self-pity and self-contempt.”
— Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980
(via stoicremains)