Boundaries Quote by Siri Hustvedt

“The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends.” quote by Siri Hustvedt — Download Open image

“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

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“the impersonal and the personal are always connected.”

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When I don't get enough sleep, I am cranky, vulnerable to headaches, and my concentration is poor.

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“Transformation of the self are related to where you are, and identity Is dependent on others.”

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There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.

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“Looking is part of love, but what you see when you look is anybody's guess.”

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Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.

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I have a tendency to face my bad fantasies in my books.

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A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to set foot in it. We need the possibility of escape as surely…

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I never go anywhere or do anything that transports me outside the boundaries of my mind.

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As a kid, in the Runaways, I would see the interviewers start to ask about our personal lives and what we did — and I could see the look in their eyes. They were practically frothing at the mouth. So if I answered these questions, I knew they were never gonna talk about the music. It was like that instinct…

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Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

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A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all, and thus the mystic who tries to speak logically and formally of unity consciousness is doomed to sound very paradoxical or contradictory. The problem is that the structure of any language cannot grasp the nature of unity consciousness,…

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