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"This would be the story of a perilous crossing to the harbour of writing, and, in the end, an uplifiting demonstration of the fact that what counts is not the things that happen, but what we do with them. All this belongs to the realm of reassuring beliefs which are fated, as we age, to become more and more deeply ingrained in us, but whose truth is fundamentally impossible to establish."
— Jun 24, 2025 02:32AM
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Andy
is on page 143 of 152
"It is the absence of meaning in what one lives, at the moment one lives it, which multiplies the possibilities of writing."
— Jun 24, 2025 02:39AM
Andy
is on page 110 of 152
"Self-narrative, in bringing to light a dominant truth that it seeks in order to ensure a continuity of being, always neglects to consider the following: our failure to understand what we experience, at the moment we experience it; the opacity of the present, whereby every sentence and every assertion ought to be riddled with holes."
— Jun 24, 2025 02:30AM
Andy
is on page 90 of 152
"How are we present in the existences of others, their memories, their ways of being, even their acts? There is a staggering imbalance between the influence those two nights with that man have had upon my life, and the nothingness of my presence in his. I do not envy him: I'm the one who is writing."
— Jun 24, 2025 02:28AM
Andy
is on page 85 of 152
"And what desire that exceeds the desire to understand fuels the relentless determination to find, among thousands of nouns, verbs and adjectives, those that will provide the certainty (the illusion) of having attained the greatest possible measure of reality? What comples her is the hope of disovering even a drop of likeness between this girl and any other being."
— Jun 24, 2025 02:27AM
Andy
is on page 85 of 152
"I wonder what it means for a woman to pore over scenes that happened over fifty years earlier, to which her memory can add nothing new at all. What is the belief that drives her, if not that memory is a form of knowledge?"
— Jun 24, 2025 02:26AM
Andy
is on page 54 of 152
"Must I, as of now, move back and forth between one historical vision and another, between 1958 and 2014? I dream of a sentence that would contain them both, seamlessly, by way of a new syntax."
— Jun 24, 2025 02:24AM
Andy
is on page 34 of 152
"I wanted physical, tangible proof of their existence, as if to continue writing I needed them to be alive, as if I needed to be writing about what is alive, to be endangered in the way one is when writing about the living and not in the state of tranquility that prevails when people die and are consigned to the immateriality of fictional characters."
— Jun 23, 2025 04:37AM
Andy
is on page 26 of 152
"She has no defined self, but 'selves' who pass from one book to another."
— Jun 23, 2025 04:25AM
Andy
is on page 18 of 152
"I am endowed by shame's vast memory, more detailed and implacable than any other, a gift unique to shame."
— Jun 23, 2025 04:09AM
