"The illusions it had woven for me had taken place only in my head. The battle had been invisible to the naked eye, but the hard ones are."

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I fell victim to the temptation of every autobiographer, to the illusion that since the past exists only in one's memories and the words which strive vainly to encapsulate them, it is possible to create past events simply by saying they occurred.

— Salman Rushdie