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“There is a will that exists, a desperate, continual, constantly renewed effort to place some people on a level below you, not to be on the lowest rung of the social ladder.”
― Édouard Louis, The End of Eddy

“life cannot be repaired, it can only be recreated through symbolic repetition of the cosmogony”
― Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion

“She has no name for that feeling of utter abandonment, nor the feeling that comes over her on fair days, when she stands in the courtyard from the photo, and the voice of the loudspeaker booms front behind the trees, and the music and commercials run together in an unintelligible blur. It is as if she were standing outside the fete, separated from some earlier thing.”
― Annie Ernaux, Les Années

“Some day this pain will be useful to you.”
― Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees