Siri Hustvedt

It can only be that places left behind often become emotionally simplified – that they sound a single note of pain or pleasure, which means that they are never what they were.

It can only be that places left behind often become emotionally simplified – that they sound a single note of pain or pleasure, which means that they are never what they were.

– Siri Hustvedt –

A Plea for Eros: Essays

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