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The more difficult it was to love the particular man beside us, the more we believed in Love, abstract and total. We were waiting, always, for the incarnation. That word, made flesh.
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Annie Ernaux
“Wer die Schule hingegen ohne Abschluss verließ, lernte früh, sich unwürdig zu fühlen, er war 'unfähig'. Das Loblied auf die Bildung verschleierte die Tatsache, dass Zugang zu ihr beschränkt war.”
Annie Ernaux, Les Années

Annie Ernaux
“I'm afraid of settling into this quiet and comfortable life, and afraid to have lived without being aware of it.”
Annie Ernaux, The Years

Annie Ernaux
“Immigration preserved the face of the helmeted road worker at the bottom of a hole in the highway, or that of the garbage collector beside a dumpster. Theirs was a purely economic existence, triumphantly assigned to them in a virtuous class debate each year by our students, who were convinced they possessed the best of all arguments against racism, i.e.: we need them for work that the French no longer want to do.”
Annie Ernaux, The Years

Annie Ernaux
“They will all vanish at the same time, like the millions of images that lay behind the foreheads of the grandparents, dead for half a century, and of the parents, also dead. Images in which we appeared as a little girl in the midst of beings who died before we were born, just as in our own memories our small children are there next to our parents and schoolmates. And one day we’ll appear in our children’s memories, among their grandchildren and people not yet born. Like sexual desire, memory never stops. It pairs the dead with the living, real with imaginary beings, dreams with history.”
Annie Ernaux, Les Années

Annie Ernaux
“In the humdrum routine of personal existence, History did not matter. We were simply happy or unhappy, depending on the day. The more immersed we were in work and family, said to be reality, the greater was our sense of unreality.”
Annie Ernaux, Les Années

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