Teju Cole Quote

We experience life as a continuity, and only after it falls away, after it becomes the past, do we see its discontinuities. The past, if there is such a thing, is mostly empty space, great expanses of nothing, in which significant persons and events float.

Open City: A Novel (ed. Random House, 2011) - ISBN: 9780679604495

We experience life as a continuity, and only after it falls away, after it becomes the past, do we see its discontinuities. The past, if there is...

We experience life as a continuity, and only after it falls away, after it becomes the past, do we see its discontinuities. The past, if there is...

We experience life as a continuity, and only after it falls away, after it becomes the past, do we see its discontinuities. The past, if there is...

We experience life as a continuity, and only after it falls away, after it becomes the past, do we see its discontinuities. The past, if there is...