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Siri Hustvedt

"Insanity is a state of profound self-absorption."

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"Insanity is a state of profound self-absorption."

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"Old places fire the internal weather of our pasts. The mild winds, aching calms, and hard storms of forgotten emotions return to us when we return to the spots where they happened."
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"The stories and pictures I make for the lives of the people closest to me are the forms of my empathy."
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"The truth is that what fascinates me is not so much being in a place as not being there: how places live in the mind once you have left them, how they are imagined before you arrive, or how they are seemingly called out of nothing to illustrate a thought or story like my tree down yonder. These mental spaces map our Innes lives more fully than any "real" map, delineating the borders of here and there that also shape what we see in the present."
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"It appears that time has turned that young woman, who imagined herself a romantic heroine, into something of a comic character, but I remain fond of her. We are relatives, after all."
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"Distortion is part of desire. We always change the things we want."
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