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It’s the people who love us or hate us – or both – who hold together the thousands of fragments we are made of.

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My work stops at publication. If the books don’t contain in themselves their reasons for being – questions and answers – it means I was wrong to have them published.
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I think our sexuality is all yet to be recounted and that the rich male literary tradition constitutes a huge obstacle.
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Climbing the economic ladder has been very hard for me; I still feel a great deal of guilt towards those I left behind.
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There was something unbearable in the things, in the people, in the buildings, in the streets that, only if you reinvented it all, as in a game, became acceptable.
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Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing.
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The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose
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We lie in order to tolerate our existence and, most of all, we lie to ourselves.
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I had to discover very quickly that class origins cannot be erased, regardless of whether we climb up or down the sociocultural ladder.
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Competition between women is good only if it does not prevail; that is to say if it coexists with affinity, affection, with a real sense of being mutually indispensable, with sudden peaks of solidarity in spite of envy, jealousy and the whole inevitable cohort of bad feelings.
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He was going through one of those moments that you read about in books, when a character reacts in an unexpectedly extreme way to the normal discontents of living.
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