. . . but I see how little people care. Somehow my story doesn't interest them.
Siri Hustvedt, from The Blazing World
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Sometimes even now I think I see him in the street or standing in a window or bent over a book in a coffee shop. And in that instant, before I understand that it's someone else, my lungs tighten and I lose my breath.
Siri Hustvedt, The Blindfold
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Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.
-- Siri Hustvedt
(Copenhagen, Denmark)
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La relación con los libros. Siri Hustvedt
Los seres humanos se relacionan con los libros, en particular con las novelas con una intimidad que no se aplica a los demás objetos inanimados (…) Los libros se registran no solo como pensamientos articulados en el lector, sino también como emoción, shock, dolor, sorpresa, placer, alivio. Hasta que el lector no devuelve a la estantería el libro, este no recupera su condición de mero objeto, e…
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L’assenza ci aveva allontanato, ma la stessa assenza ci avrebbe tenuto incatenati per sempre.
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“But we all live there, I thought to myself, in the imaginary stories we tell ourselves about our lives.”
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I see what I did not see. I experience that which is outside my own experience. This is the magic of reading novels. This is the working out of the problem of illusion.
Siri Hustvedt, from A Plea for Eros, 2005
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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.”
Siri Hustvedt, The Summer without Men
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Intimacy can cure cancer. If you say so, I believe it Siri ❤️
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He didn't speak to me then, but a month later, we became lovers, of a kind. I chased him for eight months, and he was hot and cold for the duration, never sure whether he wanted me or not.
Siri Hustvedt, from The Blindfold
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A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex and the Mind (2016) by Siri Hustvedt
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JOMP Book Photo Challenge || January || 14 || So Many Books
The books currently on my nightstand.
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In fact, being "childless" can be a synonym for "selfish".
-- Siri Hustvedt
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