Siri Hustvedt

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There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition

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I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor

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The truth is that personality inevitably bleeds into all forms of our intellectual life. We all extrapolate from our own lives in order to understand the world

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I've always thought of wholeness and integration as necessary myths. We're fragmented beings who cement ourselves together, but there are always cracks. Living with the cracks is part of being, well, reasonably healthy

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Memory changes as a person matures