"This vast life - the real, interior one……" — Anna Funder
"This vast life - the real, interior one in which we remain linked to the dead (because the dream inside us ignores trivialities like breath, or absence) - this vast life is not under our control. Everything we have seen and everyone we have known goes into us and constitutes us, whether we like it or not. We are linked together in a pattern we cannot see and whose effects we cannot know."
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Anna Funder
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I remember learning German - so beautiful, so strange - at school in Australia on the other side of the…
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I had very good eyes once. Though it's another thing to say what I saw. In my experience, it is…
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At the end of our lives it is our loves we remember most, because they are what shaped us. We…
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Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.
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