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Parade by Rachel Cusk
4.0

Philosophically strong, strikingly profound:

« Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn, legitamise that silence, can illuminate one’s unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying society the last word. »

« We made the discovery that we could create needs that we ourselves could satisfy. Later we found that our will could enlarge the possibilities of this cycle, whose end result was never the transformation of our circumstances but the rendering of the more tolerable. »