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There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.

Siri Hustvedt

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Siri Hustvedt
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 19
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Northfield
Minnesota
Premio princesa de Asturias 2019
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Temperament
Sick
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History
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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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Good books, written by men or women, are ones in which you lose consciousness of the person writing the sentences.
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Human beings are repetitive animals. All meaning is generated through repetition.
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Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.
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Demonstration of mastery gives a feeling of power and that feeling of power is a good feeling.
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Depression is when you think there's nothing to be done. Fortunately I always think there's something to be done.
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Men generally do not see women as competition.
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No matter how brilliant or accomplished they are, there is something emasculating for men in being pitted against a woman. It is even more true in creative fields already considered to be squishy and feminine, and it's a big problem because great women have been left off the record.
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We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone's eye, we look into a mind.
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I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.
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The truth is that personality inevitably bleeds into all forms of our intellectual life. We all extrapolate from our own lives in order to understand the world.
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There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true.
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Correlation is not cause, it is just a 'music of chance'.
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I think because mothers usually are the people who take care of us when we're little, and when we're little those mothers are omnipotent, perhaps men even more than women don't like to think about that dependency. That dependency is horror.
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