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Claire Messud - The Emperor's Children (2006)

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The apartment was entirely, was only, for her: a wall of books, both read and unread, all of them dear to her not only in themselves, their tender spines, but in the moments or periods they evoked… Her self, then, was represented in her books; her times in her records; and the rest of the room she thought of as a pure, blank slate.

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That's so her. You know, torn between Big Ideas and a party. She's always been that way.

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I measure my life out in books." "You should be measuring your life by living. Correction: you shouldn't be measuring your life. What's the point?

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Born: October 8, 1966 (age 58)
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