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" In sleep, we leave behind the sensory stimulation of the outside world. "
Siri Hustvedt
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" My greatest pleasure is spending time with my family: my husband and daughter, but also my mother, my three sisters, and their families. "
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" There is no reason we should expect young children to enter the nocturnal darkness of sleep and dreams without help. "
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" The idea that skiing might not be fun, might not be for everyone, had never occurred to me. Where I come from, the sport signified pleasure, nature, family happiness. "
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" As one of four daughters, I grew up with an imaginary brother - wondering what it would have been like if one of us had been a boy. There's no question that there was a phantom boy child in my imagination when I was young. "
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" I am an American, but a sense of otherness was part of my growing up. I spoke Norwegian before I spoke English. My mother is Norwegian. "
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" When I taught writing classes to psychiatric patients, I met people whose stories of manic highs and immobilizing lows appeared to be textbook descriptions of classic bipolar disorder. I met other patients who had been diagnosed with myriad disorders. No doctor seemed to agree about what they actually suffered from. "
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