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the autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an interpretation of the whole series.

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Every story, every poem, every written piece is about belonging. There is a me, there is a we, there is an us, and we want to belong to it or we don't want to belong. You can read every story with this as its main focus.

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To read is to cover one's face. And to write is to show it.

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I knew little, but at least I knew that: no one could speak for someone else. That although we might want to tell other people's stories, we always end up telling our own.

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I was going to be a memory when I grew up.

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I remember thinking, without pride of self-pity, that I was not rich or poor, that I wasn't good or bad. But that was difficult: to be neither good nor bad. It seemed to me, in the end, the same as being bad.

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You can say that literature is about topics like love, death, and all that, but I think there is only one topic that applies to all literature and that is belonging.

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