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Annie Ernaux
“Everything will be erased in a second. The dictionary of words amassed between cradle and deathbed, eliminated. All there will be is silence and no words to say it. Nothing will come out of the open mouth, neither I nor me. Language will continue to put the world into words. In conversation around a holiday table, we will be nothing but a first name, increasingly faceless, until we vanish into the vast anonymity of a distant generation.”
Annie Ernaux, The Years

Susan Sontag
“My library is an archive of longings.”
Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

Rainer Maria Rilke
“‎Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.
So you mustn’t be frightened, if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any you have ever seen; if an anxiety, like light and cloud-shadows, moves over your hands and over everything you do. You must realize that something is happening to you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand and will not let you fall.”
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

Susan Sontag
“Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.”
Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others

Rainer Maria Rilke
“And as for the rest, let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.”
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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