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“It’s funny how pregnancy is like body hair. We scrub and scrape our armpits and upper lip and legs because we hate to have hair there. Then we pamper and treat the hair on our heads because we love hair there. But it’s all hair. It’s the ...more
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Hisham Matar
“And I remember this man who never ran out of poems telling me once that knowing a book by heart is like carrying a house inside your chest.”
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N. Scott Momaday
“As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.”
N. Scott Momaday

Martin Heidegger
“Mere anxiety is the source of everything”
Martin Heidegger

Hervé Le Tellier
“There are some works so luminous...so powerful that they give us strength, and force us to new undertakings. A book can play this role.”
Hervé Le Tellier

Hisham Matar
“I heard the stories and registered them perhaps the way we all, from within our detailed lives, perceive facts--that is, we do not perceive them at all until they have been repeated countless times and, even then, understand them only partially. So much information is lost that every small loss provokes inexplicable grief. Power must know this. Power must know how fatigued human nature is, and how unready we are to listen, and how willing we are to settle for lies. Power must know that, ultimately, we would rather not know.”
Hisham Matar, The Return

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