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Deborah Levy Quote: “Capitalism sold a flat white to me as if it were a cup of freedom.”

101. “Capitalism sold a flat white to me as if it were a cup of freedom.”

— Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy Quote: “Julieta looks at me, and then she laughs. ‘Your boundaries are made from sand, Sofia.’ ‘Yes,’ I say. ‘I know that.”

102. “Julieta looks at me, and then she laughs. ‘Your boundaries are made from sand, Sofia.’ ‘Yes,’ I say. ‘I know that.”

— Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy Quote: “He did not ask me one single question, not even my name. It seemed that what he needed was a devoted, enchanting woman at his side to acquire his canapes for him and who understood that he was entirely the subject.”

103. “He did not ask me one single question, not even my name. It seemed that what he needed was a devoted, enchanting woman at his side to acquire his canapes for him and who understood that he was entirely the subject.”

— Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy Quote: “It was not that easy to convey to him, a man much older than she was, that the world was her world too.”

104. “It was not that easy to convey to him, a man much older than she was, that the world was her world too.”

— Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy Quote: “Mother was The Woman the whole world had imagined to death. It proved very hard to re-negotiate the world’s nostalgic phantasy about our purpose in life. The trouble was that we too had all sorts of wild imaginings about what Mother should ‘be’ and were cursed with the desire to not be disappointing. We did not yet entirely understand that Mother, as imagined and politicised by the societal system, was a delusion. The world loved the delusion more than it loved the mother.”

105. “Mother was The Woman the whole world had imagined to death. It proved very hard to re-negotiate the world’s nostalgic phantasy about our purpose in life. The trouble was that we too had all sorts of wild imaginings about what Mother should ‘be’ and were cursed with the desire to not be disappointing. We did not yet entirely understand that Mother, as imagined and politicised by the societal system, was a delusion. The world loved the delusion more than it loved the mother.”

— Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy Quote: “My words were smaller than my feelings at that moment. I had spent my life finding diplomatic words. Am I a diplomat then? Isn’t it hard enough to play Beethoven.”

106. “My words were smaller than my feelings at that moment. I had spent my life finding diplomatic words. Am I a diplomat then? Isn’t it hard enough to play Beethoven.”

— Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy Quote: “It was a big release from the terror of death to finally acknowledge that it is also always absurd.”

107. “It was a big release from the terror of death to finally acknowledge that it is also always absurd.”

— Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy Quote: “There are vertical swimmers and horizontal swimmers, she said. I myself have sometimes thought I will become a vertical swimmer. No one says I have to do the third act of my life. It is always nasty. If I become ill in old age, I have not ruled it out.”

108. “There are vertical swimmers and horizontal swimmers, she said. I myself have sometimes thought I will become a vertical swimmer. No one says I have to do the third act of my life. It is always nasty. If I become ill in old age, I have not ruled it out.”

— Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy Quote: “He glanced drowsily at Laura and Mitchell eating their strawberries in the sunshine and found himself about to fall asleep. It was an odd sensation, ‘to find himself’ about to fall into sleep. As if he could find himself anywhere at any time.”

109. “He glanced drowsily at Laura and Mitchell eating their strawberries in the sunshine and found himself about to fall asleep. It was an odd sensation, ‘to find himself’ about to fall into sleep. As if he could find himself anywhere at any time.”

— Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy Quote: “The arrogance of metaphor when facts save people’s lives. The succour of metaphor when facts inadequately describe people’s lives.”

110. “The arrogance of metaphor when facts save people’s lives. The succour of metaphor when facts inadequately describe people’s lives.”

— Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy Quote: “This was the model most politicians had adopted to run their democracies and dictatorships. If the reality of the right hand is being messed up with the left hand, it would be true to say that reality is not a stable commodity.”

111. “This was the model most politicians had adopted to run their democracies and dictatorships. If the reality of the right hand is being messed up with the left hand, it would be true to say that reality is not a stable commodity.”

— Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy Quote: “Can we accept that language is sacred and scared and it’s scarred as well, because that’s how we all are?”

112. “Can we accept that language is sacred and scared and it’s scarred as well, because that’s how we all are?”

— Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy Quote: “She was not a poet. She was a poem. She was about to snap in half. He thought his own poetry had made her la la la la love him. It was unbearable.”

113. “She was not a poet. She was a poem. She was about to snap in half. He thought his own poetry had made her la la la la love him. It was unbearable.”

— Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy Quote: “The writing life is mostly about stamina. To get to the finishing line requires the writing to become more interesting than everyday life...”

114. “The writing life is mostly about stamina. To get to the finishing line requires the writing to become more interesting than everyday life...”

— Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy Quote: “Truth is not always the most entertaining guest at the dinner table, and anyway, as Duras suggests, we are always more unreal to ourselves than other people are.”

115. “Truth is not always the most entertaining guest at the dinner table, and anyway, as Duras suggests, we are always more unreal to ourselves than other people are.”

— Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy Quote: “Each new journey is a mourning for what has been left behind. The wanderer sometimes tries to recreate what has been left behind, in a new place.”

116. “Each new journey is a mourning for what has been left behind. The wanderer sometimes tries to recreate what has been left behind, in a new place.”

— Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy Quote: “To do the things she had chosen to do in the world, she risked forfeiting her place as a wife and mother, a bewildering place haunted by all that had been imagined for her if she chose to sit in it.”

117. “To do the things she had chosen to do in the world, she risked forfeiting her place as a wife and mother, a bewildering place haunted by all that had been imagined for her if she chose to sit in it.”

— Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy Quote: “I was thinking of Hecate at the crossroads with her burning torches and keys, Medusa with her snakes and fatal gaze, Artemis with her hunting dogs and deer, Aphrodite with her doves, Demeter with her mares, Athena with her owl. Whenever I saw eccentric and sometimes mentally fragile older women feeding pigeons on the pavement of every city in the world, I thought, Yes, there she is, she is one of those cut-down goddesses who has become demented by life.”

118. “I was thinking of Hecate at the crossroads with her burning torches and keys, Medusa with her snakes and fatal gaze, Artemis with her hunting dogs and deer, Aphrodite with her doves, Demeter with her mares, Athena with her owl. Whenever I saw eccentric and sometimes mentally fragile older women feeding pigeons on the pavement of every city in the world, I thought, Yes, there she is, she is one of those cut-down goddesses who has become demented by life.”

— Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy Quote: “To separate from love is to live a risk-free life. What’s the point of that sort of life?”

119. “To separate from love is to live a risk-free life. What’s the point of that sort of life?”

— Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy Quote: “You get tragedy when the tree, instead of bending, breaks.”

120. “You get tragedy when the tree, instead of bending, breaks.”

— Deborah Levy

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