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I like this back and forth between the past and the present, between memory and reality.

— Évelyne Trouillot for Bomb Magazine (2005)

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More quotes by Évelyne Trouillot

Literature is a key to understanding human nature, social relations, and feelings.

for Words Without Borders (2019)

Between us silence covers the wounds with a veil of peace and a soft breeze. (p19)

The Infamous Rosalie (2003)

Two crimson nights, followed by so many days of silence. (chapter 1 p34)

Memory at Bay (2010)

Always in the backs of their minds were their memories of an oppressive past, from which they could hope to break free only with great turmoil and agitation. (chapter 3 p100 )

Memory at Bay (2010)

This is a year not just to celebrate the past; it is a year to build, to change, to question, to recover our history and demystify it.

for Bomb Magazine (2005)

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Man should possess an infinite appetite for life. It should be self-evident to him, all the time, that life is superb, glorious, endlessly rich, infinitely desirable.

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To live in hearts we leave behind
Is not to die.

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In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important a function as recollecting.

William James The Principles of Psychology (1890)

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