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Olga Tokarczuk
“we discussed the function of defense mechanisms and found that we were humbled by the power of that portion of our psyche, we began to understand that if it weren’t for rationalization, sublimation, denial—all the little tricks we let ourselves perform—if instead we simply saw the world as it was, with nothing to protect us, honestly and courageously, it would break our hearts.”
Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

Jon Fosse
“Vidme sees before him all the despairing people who have tried to give meaning to their lives by saying that it is God’s will that this or that happens, because the darkness has always been heavy, the wind hard, love has always, always been somewhere between killing and caring, the ocean has always been hard, births even harder, and above it all there has always been an enormous sky”
Jon Fosse, Melancholie I.

“I’m not trying to repeat the sagas. I make my own stories and I’m very obsessed with not being nostalgic, because I think that 90 percent of the world is too nostalgic. They don’t have the courage to face the present and make stories that are relevant today, about life today... I want people to do more of that.”
Björk
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Claire-Louise Bennett
“So even though it sometimes feels as if one could just about die from disappointment I must concede that in fact in a rather perverse way it is precisely those things I did not get that are keeping me alive.”
Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond

Claire-Louise Bennett
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.”
Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19

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