Maybe the true purpose of my life is for my body, my sensat… - Annie Ernaux

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Maybe the true purpose of my life is for my body, my sensations and my thoughts to become writing, in other words, something intelligible and universal, causing my existence to merge into the lives and heads of other people.

Annie Ernaux

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Annie Ernaux (birth name Annie Duchesne; born 1 September 1940) is a French writer and professor of literature. Ernaux was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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