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I have always wondered whether everyone’s interior life is as exhaustingly complicated as mine, if everyone is placed, like a white mouse, in the middle of their labyrinthine mind, through which they have to find a path, just one, the true one, while all the others lead to traps with no escape.

— Mircea Cărtărescu, Solenoid, tr. Sean Cotter. (Deep Vellum Publishing, November 29, 2022)

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SOLENOID Mircea Cărtărescu

Translated from the Romanian by Sean Cotter

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We know we are in the maze, we know we have to escape, even in the absence of an angelic mind, even in our plodding reasoning, even as we improvise with what we have, even as we take the wrong turn thousands of times before we take the right turn once, and we believe that we will find the exit, if only by dumb luck, because without this belief, we could not breathe.

― Mircea Cărtărescu, Solenoid. Sean Cotter (Translator). (Deep Vellum Publishing, November 29 2022)

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As a writer, you make yourself less real with each book you write. [...] The despair you feel is that of one who lives in two dimensions and is trapped inside a square, in the middle of an infinite piece of paper.

― Mircea Cărtărescu, Solenoid. Sean Cotter (Translator). (Deep Vellum Publishing, November 29 2022)

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