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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.
Siri Hustvedt
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Siri Hustvedt
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 19
Essayist
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Northfield
Minnesota
Premio princesa de Asturias 2019
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