André Aciman - Call Me by Your Name (2007)

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And on that evening when we grow older still we'll speak about these two young men as though they were two strangers we met on the train and whom we admire and want to help along. And we'll want to call it envy, because to call it regret would break our hearts.

André Aciman

I suddenly realized that we were on borrowed time, that time is always borrowed, and that the lending agency exacts its premium precisely when we are least prepared to pay and need to borrow more...

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Whoever said the soul and the body met in the pineal gland was a fool. It's the asshole, stupid.

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Most of us can't help but live as though we've got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the finished version, and then there are all those versions in between. But there's only one, and before you know it, your heart is worn out, and, as for your body, there comes a point when no one looks at it, much less wants to come near it. Right now there's sorrow. I don't envy the pain. But I envy you the pain.

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If I could have him like this in my dreams every night of my life, I'd stake my entire life on dreams and be done with the rest.

André Aciman

At one hundred, surely you learn to overcome loss and grief—or do they hound you till the bitter end?

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