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“Books are born from guts, from the need of writing them, and are read in the same way, in the angst to read them, from a primite need.”
― Pensamiento monógamo, terror poliamoroso
― Pensamiento monógamo, terror poliamoroso
“We do so many things together. We go to theatres, exhibitions, bookstores, we spend hours and hours discussing politics, books, films, friends. And you think I do these things for the same reason you do, because I enjoy them. But you're wrong. I do them all for it, for the tapeworm. That's how it seems to me: that my whole life is no longer for my sake but for the sake of what I carry inside me, of which I am now no more than a servant.”
― Letters to a Young Novelist
― Letters to a Young Novelist
“I started to make a literary being of myself, someone who lives as if her experiences were to be written down someday.”
― Mémoire de fille
― Mémoire de fille
“Every translator’s origin story seems to involve a measure of serendipity, and mine is no exception.”
― Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto
― Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto
“Encore sous le choc, nous étions en train de comprendre que faire ce que nous avions toujours fait pouvait désormais nous valoir une condamnation, qu'il suffisait d'une blague, d'un bon mot, d'une seule phrase, pour que la police déboule à l'aube et nous embarque. Face au vague et à l'immensité de cette menace nouvelle, il ne nous restait que la peur, une peur muette, collective.”
― Madame Hayat
― Madame Hayat
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