Siri Hustvedt said this quote

“ Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words, but a dynamic associative network in the brain that is never quiet and is subject to revision each time we retrieve an old picture or old words. ”

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There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.

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Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating.

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We chart delusions through collective agreement.

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I was happy without having sought happiness.

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