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Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.

Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit – unconscious and conscious.
– Siri Hustvedt

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  2. Our memory fragments don’t have any coherence until they’re imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense. – Siri Hustvedt
  3. Memory changes as a person matures. – Siri Hustvedt
  4. What she remembered is undoubtedly something so radically different from the image I gave to her memory that the two may be incompatible. – Siri Hustvedt
  5. In this early memory he looks different from the way I would remember him later. – Siri Hustvedt
  6. A flower blooms with all of her power and love to give you joy and to beautify this world. Is she conscious, unconscious, or super conscious? – Debasish Mridha
  7. 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. – Siri Hustvedt
  8. Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn’t there, and that creative invention becomes the book. – Siri Hustvedt
  9. Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting. – Siri Hustvedt
  10. Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie. – Siri Hustvedt
  11. Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on. – Siri Hustvedt
  12. Are not dreams as much a part of living as waking life is? – Siri Hustvedt
  13. fiction is necessary to life – not only as books but as dreams, dreams that frame the world and give it meaning. – Siri Hustvedt
  14. I am fascinated that no one I have read seems to have noticed that the literature on Picasso continually turns grown-up women into girls. – Siri Hustvedt
  15. Artists are cannibals. We consume other artists, and they become part of us-”flesh and bone-”only to be spewed out again in our own works. – Siri Hustvedt
  16. The history of art is full of women lying around naked for ?????c consumption by men. – Siri Hustvedt
  17. 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. – Siri Hustvedt
  18. Only the unprotected self can feel joy. – Siri Hustvedt
  19. The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends. – Siri Hustvedt
  20. The advice is a call to empathy, the ultimate act of the imagination, and the true ground of all fiction. – Siri Hustvedt
  21. My purely practical advice: Don’t get excited. Don’t raise your voice. Bite back. Bite back hard, but never cry. – Siri Hustvedt
  22. Immigration inevitably involves error and revision. What I imagined it would be, it’s not. For better or worse, some mistake is unavoidable. – Siri Hustvedt
  23. No doubt I would have felt reverent in less lovely places, because I imagined a past I connected to myself. – Siri Hustvedt
  24. Crippled and crazy, we hobble toward the finish line, pen in hand. – Siri Hustvedt
  25. Correlation is not cause, it is just a ‘music of chance’. – Siri Hustvedt
  26. Accumulated experience always alters perception of the past. – Siri Hustvedt
  27. Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it. – Siri Hustvedt
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  29. There’s a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in. – Siri Hustvedt
  30. There’s a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in. – Siri Hustvedt
  31. Transformation of the self are related to where you are, and identity Is dependent on others. – Siri Hustvedt
  32. The bottle of red brush on a white table gleamed throughout the remaining years of my childhood as the sign of what was possible there. – Siri Hustvedt
  33. The stories and pictures I make for the lives of the people closest to me are the forms of my empathy. – Siri Hustvedt
  34. He was asking for memories, too young himself to know that memories were only memories of memories. – Alan Hollinghurst
  35. Your UNconscious mind has more power, influence and control over your thoughts, feelings, decisions, and choices, than your conscious mind. – Tony Dovale
  36. Living in the past is a conscious or an unconscious choice made through a connection to the past. – Asa Don Brown
  37. Until you are conscious of your conscience, you are morally unconscious. – Donald L Hicks
  38. You have two choices: To live an unconscious life, or to be conscious of your magnificence… – Cloris Kylie
  39. Every man is the conscious or unconscious author of his state. – Ogwo David Emenike
  40. He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success. – Doris Kearns Goodwin

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