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“Le passé a du temps ; il attend toujours avec patience au carrefour de l’avenir ; et c’est là qu’il ouvre à l’homme qui pensait s’en être évadé sa vraie prison à cinq cellules : l’immortalité des disparus, la permanence de l’oublié, le destin d’être coupable, la compagnie de la solitude, la malédiction salutaire de l’amour.”
― Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes

“The man shrank. It was funny, but people never seemed to notice at first glance how big. Henry was. Maybe it was because of his clothes, which were like one of those lame but curiously impenetrable disguises from a comic book (why does no one ever see that 'bookish' Clark Kent, without his glasses, is Superman?).

Or maybe it was a question of his making people see. He had the far more remarkable talent of making himself invisible: in a room, in a car, a virtual ability to dematerialize at will – and perhaps this gift was only the converse of that one: the sudden concentration of his wandering molecules rendering his shadowy form solid, all at once, a metamorphosis startling to the viewer.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History