Siri Hustvedt said this quote

“ The English expression 'to fall asleep' is apt because the transition between waking and sleeping is a gradual drop from one state of being into another: a giving up of full self-consciousness for unconsciousness or for the altered consciousness of dreams. ”

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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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