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“When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.” – Haruki Murakami

The eye of the storm

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“A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying to get the better of it, as it was of her.” — Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

Meet me in the middle

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“The more vast the amount of time we’ve left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it.” – Milan Kundera

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The voice calling

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“Words: with them you can do and undo as you please.” – Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name

The doing and undoing

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“The facts are always less than what really happened.” – Nadine Gordimer

What really happened

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“The pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word discovered in the space of memory. Some things have been lost forever, other things will perhaps be remembered again, and still other things have been lost and found and lost again. There is no way to be sure of any this.” – Paul Auster, The Invention of Solitude

Memory’s lost and found

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“Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths.” – J.M. Coetzee, Slow Man

Read between the lies

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“The skies we slept under were too uncertain for forecasts. They came and went on the moody gusts of the Atlantic, bringing half a dozen weathers in an afternoon and playing all four movements of a wind symphony, allegro, andante, scherzo and adagio on the broken backs of white waves.” – Niall Williams

Movements of the wind

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Everything in the world was in precarious balance, pure risk, and those who didn’t agree to take the risk wasted away in a corner, without getting to know life.
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name

“Everything in the world was in precarious balance, pure risk…” ― Elena Ferrante

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But nevertheless, the fact remained, it was almost impossible to dislike anyone if one looked at them. ― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“…it was almost impossible to dislike anyone if one looked at them.” ― Virginia Woolf

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