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  "I don't intend to let my intellect dominate me," she commented. "I intend to do everything ... to have one way of evaluating experience — does it cause me pleasure or pain, and I shall be very cautious about rejecting the painful — I shall anticipate pleasure everywhere and find it, too, for it is everywhere!" In an especially revealing passage, she then went on to comment, "I am alive ... I am beautiful ... what else is there?"

  Sontag was 16 years old when she wrote that entry.

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