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Siri Hustvedt

"We are all dying one by one. We all smell of mortality, and we can't wash it off."

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Akiroq Brost

"In one way, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. But for precisely that reason, I can't see myself smiting my brow with shock or hear myself whining about how it's all so unfair: I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me."

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Akiroq Brost

"Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time."

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Akiroq Brost

"We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion."

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Akiroq Brost

"If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?'Clawing at the roof of her coffin."

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Akiroq Brost

"The moment one is born, the 'saw starts cutting'. People consider it as death only when the wood breaks in two pieces [during funeral]. But it was being cut from the very beginning."

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Akiroq Brost

"It doth not hurt", whispered a faint voice, "She will take you life and all you are and all you care'st for, and she will leave you with nothing but mist and fog. She'll take your joy. And one day you'll wake and your heart and soul will have gone. A husk you'll be, a wisp you'll be, and a thing no more than a dream on waking, or a memory of something forgotten."

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Akiroq Brost

"But what really happens after you are dead - that is what I want to know?I cannot tell you Renisenb. You should ask a priest these questions.He would just give me the usual answers. I want to know.We shall none of us know until we are dead ourselves."

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Akiroq Brost

"O my mistress, do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune but all the dead are dead alike!"

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Akiroq Brost

"Today here, then there, then DEAD (IT"S A FACT, you can't do anything just take it like this.... or be prepare for the worst. Who is prepared never get suprised easy!)."

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Akiroq Brost

"Can really anybody put his hand on his heart and profess to know beyond doubt what happens on the other side of this life?"

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Siri Hustvedt
"Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting."

Emotion

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Siri Hustvedt
"There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in."

Illness

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Siri Hustvedt
"It is true that I suffered in a difficult and stupid love affair and that I worked at one bad job after another to try to keep myself going. Nevertheless, I remember that time as extraordinary, and I wouldn't trade it for anything. I don't even wish now that I had more money. And had I been asked if I was suffering at the time, I would have said a defiant no."

Resilience

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Siri Hustvedt
"I am fascinated that no one I have read seems to have noticed that the literature on Picasso continually turns grown-up women into girls."

Art

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Siri Hustvedt
"No doubt I would have felt reverent in less lovely places, because I imagined a past I connected to myself."

Memory

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Siri Hustvedt
"In this early memory he looks different from the way I would remember him later."

Perception

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Siri Hustvedt
"In order to be accepted, women must compensate for their ambition and strength by being nice. Men don't have to be nearly as much d as women. I do not believe women are natively nicer than men. They may learn that niceness brings rewards and hat names ambition is often punished. They may ingratiate themselves because such behavior is rewarded and a strategy of stealth may lead to better results than being forthright, but even when women are open and direct, they are not always seen or heard."

Society

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Siri Hustvedt
"But that's why you're upset now. Fiction is not life.''You don't believe that.''I think I do.''You know as well as I do that the line can't be drawn, that we're infected at every moment by fictions of all kinds, that it's inescapable.''Don't be a sophist,' he said. 'There is a world and it's palpable.''I don't mean that,' I said. 'I mean that it's hard really to see it, that it's all hazy with out dreams and fantasies."

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Siri Hustvedt
"Feminism was good for me, as were any number of causes, but as I developed as a thinking person, the truisms and dogmas of every ideology became as worn as that book's cover."

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Siri Hustvedt
"When a culture oppresses women, and all do to one degree or another, it isn't convenient to acknowledge that there are women who like submission in bed or who have fantasies about rape. Masochistic fantasies damage the case for equality, and even when they are seen as the result of a "sick society," the peculiarity of our sexual actions or fantasies is not easily untangled or explained away. The ground from which they spring is simply too muddy. Acts can be controlled, but not desire. Sexual feeling pops up, in spite of our politics."

Sexuality

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