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Book Review: At Home – A Short History of Private Life

‘It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before…’

‘This life we live nowadays. It’s not life, it’s stagnation…’

‘How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?’

‘There are thousands of things that can kill us…’

It really ties the film together…

‘The higher you climb, the further you have to fall…’

‘Employers sense in me a denial of their values…’

‘She brought herself away from the disagreeably clinging thought by imagining the sweet sharp sensation of being burned alive…’

‘They still remembered to use stones…’

‘We’ll never get them to notice us if we say ordinary things in an ordinary way…’