"I suddenly realized that we were on borrowed……" — 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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13 Quotes by André Aciman
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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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As we walked, I began to wonder what the opposite of molting was and why, unlike the body, which sheds…
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All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.
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I stopped for a second. If you remember everything, I wanted to say, and if you are really like me,…
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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…
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Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.
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At one hundred, surely you learn to overcome loss and grief—or do they hound you till the bitter end?
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If there is pain, nurse it, and if there is a flame, don't snuff it out, don't be brutal with…
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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…
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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…
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No one starts as a self-hater. But rack up all of your mistakes and take a large enough number of…
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Would I still feel this way on leaving the party tonight? Or would I find cunning ways to latch on…
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