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“The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. ... To one degree or another, we all invent our personal pasts.”
- Siri Hustvedt,
- The Shaking Woman or a History of My Nerves
- (2009)
“ Human beings are repetitive animals. All meaning is generated through repetition.”
- Siri Hustvedt,
- The Shaking Woman or a History of My Nerves
- (2009)
“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.”
- Siri Hustvedt,
- The Shaking Woman or a History of My Nerves
- (2009)
“Like countless first-year medical students, immersed in the symptoms of one disease after another, I am alert to the tingles and pangs, the throbs and quivers of my mortal body, each one of which is potentially a sign of the end.”
- Siri Hustvedt,
- The Shaking Woman or a History of My Nerves
- (2009)

(1955)