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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. — Susan Sontag

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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.

Susan Sontag
Against Interpretation · 1966
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1966
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Sontag, Susan "Against Interpretation." Against Interpretation. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966.

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