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Like most people, when I look back, the family house is held in time, or rather it is now outside of time, because it exists so clearly and it does no...more

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The inside and the outside of our lives are each the shell where we learn to live.

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People do go back, but they don't survive, because two realities are claiming them at the same time. Such things are too much. You can salt your heart...more

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Those old sayings about Give It Time, and Time is a Healer depend on just whose time it is.

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The things that I regret in my life are not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.

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The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.

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The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.

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Do you wake up as I do, having forgotten what it is that hurts or where, until you move? There is a second of consciousness that is clean again. A sec...more

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Every day in my consultancy, I meet men and women who are out of their minds. That is, they have not the slightest idea who they really are or what it...more

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Time: Change experienced and observed. Time measured by the angle of the turning earth as it rotates through its axis. The earth turning slowly on its...more

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What is it that you contain? The dead, time, light patterns of millenia opening in your gut. What is salted up in the memory of you? Memory past and m...more

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The human heart is my territory. I write about love because it’s the most important thing in the world. I write about sex because often it feels like ...more

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I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.

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By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's.

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There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won’t complain.