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

“To acquire a world of his own, the profane man has desacralized the world in which his ancestors lived; but to do so he has been obliged to adopt the opposite of an earlier type of behavior, and that behavior is still emotionally present to him, in one form or another, ready to be reactualized in his deepest being”
― Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion

“The things we remember most clearly are always those that bring us shame.”
― Édouard Louis, Histoire de la violence

“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