"You do not even think of your own past as quite real; you dress it up, you gild it or blacken it,..."

“You do not even think of your own past as quite real; you dress it up, you gild it or blacken it, censor it, tinker with it…fictionalize it, in a word, and put it away on a shelf—your book, your romanced autobiography. We are all in the flight from the real reality.”

- John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman
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