Siri Hustvedt Quotes about Past

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There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.

There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.

Reflection, Past, Form

Siri Hustvedt (2011). “The Summer Without Men: A Novel”, p.94, Macmillan

Time is not outside us, but inside. Only we live with past, present, and future, and the present is too brief to experience anyway; it is retained afterward and then it is either codified or it slips into amnesia.

Siri Hustvedt

Past, Amnesia, Slips

Siri Hustvedt (2011). “The Summer Without Men: A Novel”, p.33, Macmillan

The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree or another, we all invent our personal pasts. And for most of us those pasts are built from emotionally colored memories.

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Memories, Past, Hands

Siri Hustvedt (2010). “The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves”, p.112, Macmillan

Siri Hustvedt Quotes about Past

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