"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.”

- John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman

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