"this objectivity makes it possible to move around in oneself as if it belonged to another, and then we have come full circle for that movement requires empathy." -Karl Ove Knausgaard

When the person writing about him or herself has moved out of the self, thus incorporating an external gaze, a strange kind of objectivity arises, something which at one and the same time belongs to the inner and the outer, and this objectivity makes it possible to move around in oneself as if it belonged to another, and then we have come full circle for that movement requires empathy. Karl Ove Knausgaard - Summer

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