"The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.“


-Susan Sontag

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The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

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