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Only the unprotected self can feel joy.

Only the unprotected self can feel joy.
– Siri Hustvedt

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  9. 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
  10. 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
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  15. My purely practical advice: Don’t get excited. Don’t raise your voice. Bite back. Bite back hard, but never cry. – Siri Hustvedt
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  20. Memory changes as a person matures. – Siri Hustvedt
  21. 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
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  23. Crippled and crazy, we hobble toward the finish line, pen in hand. – Siri Hustvedt
  24. Correlation is not cause, it is just a ‘music of chance’. – Siri Hustvedt
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  26. 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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