"Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning."

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One of the many, many things I hate about war is how it trivializes the personal. The big themes, the broad sweep, the emergency measures, the national identity, all the things that a particular kind of man with a particular kind of power urge adores, these are the things that become important. War gives the lie to the personal, drowns it in meetings, alarms, sacrifices. The personal is only allowed to return as death.

— Jeanette Winterson