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Siri Hustvedt

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

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

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"Love and hate, despite their polar opposites, are both feelings that are induced by passion. I can handle that. It's the indifference I don't know how to process."

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"Strong anger can only make you weaker than you already are."

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"Are you a kind of person who likes to keep all your emotions hidden from the people around you! Do you prefer restraining your feelings a little too much! In that case, you must know that too much emotional suppression can have catastrophic impact over your body."

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"A little inhumanity does not describe you as heartless, rather, it is a way of telling others that you have a heart that can get angry."

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"If people were rain I was a drizzle and she was a hurricane."

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"My chest ached, my body speaking a language my head didn't quite understand."

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"Down the road of hate, at every busted corner lurks the need for love."

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"The good news is that opportunities for love enter our lives unpredictably, whether or not we've perfected self-compassion or befriended our inner critic."

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"I have unclasp'd to thee the book even of my secret soul."

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"And how unfair it would be to torture your heart in never feeling again, because of a feeling you haven't even tried to understand yet."

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"Artists are cannibals. We consume other artists, and they become part of us-flesh and bone-only to be spewed out again in our own works."
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"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."
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"Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn't there, and that creative invention becomes the book."
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"There is no perception without memory. But good art surprise us. Good art reorients our expectations, forces us to break the pattern, to see in a new way."
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"Distortion is part of desire. We always change the things we want."
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"The history of art is full of women lying around naked for erotic consumption by men."
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"Only the unprotected self can feel joy."
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"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."
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"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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"Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it."
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