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“That is why writers with a strong style often write poor books. 'That is also why writers with strong themes so often write poor books. Strong themes and styles have to be broken down before literature can come into being. It is this breaking down that is called 'writing'. Writing is more about destroying than creating, No one knew that better than Rimbaud.The remarkable thing about him was not that he arrived at this insight at such a disturbingly young age but that he applied it to life as well. For Rimbaud everything was about freedom, in writing as in life, and it was because freedom was paramount that he could put writing behind him, or perhaps even had to put writing behind him, because it too became a curb on him that had to be destroyed. Freedom is like destruction plus movement. Another writer to realise this was Aksel Sandemose. His tragedy was that he was only able to enact the latter in literature, not in lifè. He destroyed, and never moved on from what he had destroyed. Rimbaud went to Africa.”

—A Death in the Family
My Struggle: Book 1,
Karl Ove Knausgaard

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