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I think that it's important for people to read philosophy and literature is not because I think everyone should be a well-rounded human being, but because it will help you think better about what you are doing.

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Siri Hustvedt
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 19
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Northfield
Minnesota
Premio princesa de Asturias 2019
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Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.
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Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.
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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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I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.
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Dreaming is another form of thinking, more concrete, more economical, more visual, and often more emotional than the thoughts of the day, but a thinking through of the day, nevertheless.
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The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends.
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In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on our character, which underlines the simple truth that no person leaves himself behind in order to look at a painting.
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A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.
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All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static.
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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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Men generally do not see women as competition.
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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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Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader’s skull and heart.
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Reading is a private pursuit one that takes place behind closed doors.
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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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Intellectual curiosity about one's own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn't cure myself, perhaps I could at least begin to understand myself.
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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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Memory changes as a person matures.
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Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.
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Many writers over the centuries simply do not have the reputations they deserve because they were female, and that is an act of suppression.
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