“The worst thing about shame is that we imagine we are the only ones to experience it.”

—  Annie Ernaux, book La Honte

Quoted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 184, ed. Tom Burns and ‎Jeffrey Hunter (Gale, 2004), p. 164, and in The Poetics of Childhood by Roni Natov (Routledge, 2014), p. 220
Shame (1997)

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