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“Everyone assumed it had to be some sort of biography, because if you are a woman and use yourself as a character, it has to be some sort of confessional, whereas if you’re a man, you’re actually doing some post-modern play on the novel, some critique on identity with lots of references to Foucault.”
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“Signs form a language, but not the one you think you know.”
― Invisible Cities
― Invisible Cities
“I seem to wake
and sleep ambiguously,
to see and misconceive,
to feel on the brink of something
that doesn’t end”
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and sleep ambiguously,
to see and misconceive,
to feel on the brink of something
that doesn’t end”
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“Well, where is she ? Where the colossal / Mountains of smoke stand. / That thing there amongst the fires / Is her.”
― Poems 1913-1956
― Poems 1913-1956
“In any case, I wrote, I've decided to make myself strong. As far as I can tell, that's all I can do.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
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