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"The worst thing about shame is that we imagine we are the only ones to experience it."
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Annie Ernaux
Annie Ernaux
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Annie Thérèse Blanche Ernaux is a French writer who was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements, and collective restraints of personal memory". Her literary work, mostly autobiographical, maintains close links with sociology.
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"I can no longer think of any way to change my life except by having a baby. I will never sink lower than that."
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"I am beginning to reach the age when I say hello to the old women I meet in my neighborhood, anticipating the moment in life when I shall be one of them. When I was twenty I didnt notice them; they would be dead before my face had wrinkles."
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"I am endowed by shames vast memory, more detailed and implacable than any other, a gift unique to shame."
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"I love my life, I like to be cosmopolitan, I would like to visit the whole earth and love it all."
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"Maybe the true purpose of my life is for my body, my sensations and my thoughts to become writing, in other words, something intelligible and universal, causing my existence to merge into the lives and heads of other people."
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