"It was one of those moments that in retrospect have come to seem prophetic… Sometimes it has seemed..."

“It was one of those moments that in retrospect have come to seem prophetic… Sometimes it has seemed to me that life is a series of punishments for such moments of unawareness, that one forges one’s own destiny by what one doesn’t notice or feel compassion for; that what you don’t know and don’t make the effort to understand will become the very thing you are forced into knowledge of.”

- Rachel Cusk, Outline
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