Jeffrey Eugenides citations

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“Elles nous avaient fait participer à leur folie, parce que nous ne pouvions faire autrement.”

“le monde est émotion à l’état pur, allant et venant entre ses créatures.”

“She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.”

“She had given birth to me and nursed me and brought me up. She had known me before I knew myself and now she had no say in the matter. Life started out one thing and then suddenly turned a corner and became something else.”

“that since Cecilia’s suicide, the Lisbons could hardly wait for night to forget themselves in sleep.”

“Yes, you need a passport to prove to the world that you exist. The people at passport control, they cannot look at you and see you are a person. No! They have to look at a little photograph of you. Then they believe you exist.”

“They thought depression was like bieng 'depressed'. They thought it was like being in a bad mood, only worse. Therefore, they tried to get him to snap out of it.”