Aleksandar Hemon Quotes

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All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all that the world is.

Aleksandar Hemon
I wanted us to share the sense that the number of wrong moves far exceeds the number of good moves, to share the frightening instability of the correct decision, to bond in being confounded.

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God knows our despair. God wants His chosen people to live in peace. God loves life, cares less about death. We need to live. I want to live, I want my children to live. Everyone I know wants to live. You have to ask yourself what is more important to you, life is death. What is this world about - life or death?

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The hopeless hope is one of the early harbingers of spring, bespeaking an innocent belief that the world might right its wrongs and reverse its curses simply because the trees are coming into leaf.

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I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.

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It is so much easier to deal with the dead than with the living. The dead are out of the way, merely characters from stories about the past, never again unreadable, no misunderstandings possible, the pain coming from them stable and manageable. nor do you have to explain yourself to them, to justify the fact of your life.

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It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us. The daily work of love was often hard to perform at home.

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I loved you because there was no other place for me to go. We were married because we did not know what else to do with each other. You never knew me, nothing about me, what died inside me, what lived invisibly.

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Because sometimes you have no control over life and it keeps you far away from who you love.

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When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.

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I spotted a can in the corner whose red label read SADNESS. Was there so much of it they could can it and sell it? A bolt of pain went through my intestines before I realized that it was not SADNESS but SARDINES.

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There are moments in life when it is all turned inside out—what is real becomes unreal, what is unreal becomes tangible, and all your levelheaded efforts to keep a tight ontological control are rendered silly and indulgent.

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I recognized him then; that is, I finally comprehended what I had known but had never been able to formulate: he had always been complete. He had finished the work of becoming himself, long before any of us could even imagine such a feat was possible.

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Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity

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The incessant perpetuation of collective fantasies makes people crave the truth and nothing but the truth - reality is the fastest American commodity.

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Your memories become fantasies if they are not shared, and your life in all its triviality becomes a legend.

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If you can't go home, there is nowhere to go, and nowhere is the biggest place in the world-indeed, nowhere is the world.

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The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough.

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The more you lose, the more is to be lost, yet it matters less.

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