The worst thing about shame is that we imagine we are the only ones to experience it. - Annie Ernaux

I love my life, I like to be cosmopolitan, I would like to visit the whole earth and love it all.

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.

I am endowed by shame's vast memory, more detailed and implacable than any other, a gift unique to shame.