Monday, December 15, 2014

Both bitter and serene

'The next day I woke up with the feeling that I was myself at last. A great calm, at the same time both bitter and serene, spread through me. I no longer had to struggle between my Russian and my French identities. I accepted myself.' 
(Andrei Makine trans. Geoffrey Strachan, Dreams of My Russian Summers, 183)

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