André Aciman Quotes

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• Whoever said the soul and the body met in the pineal gland was a fool. It's the asshole, stupid.
• As we walked, I began to wonder what the opposite of molting was and why, unlike the body, which sheds everything, the soul cannot let…
• All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.
• I stopped for a second. If you remember everything, I wanted to say, and if you are really like me, then before you leave tomorrow,…
• 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…
• 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…
• Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.
• At one hundred, surely you learn to overcome loss and grief—or do they hound you till the bitter end?
• If there is pain, nurse it, and if there is a flame, don't snuff it out, don't be brutal with it. Withdrawal can be a…
• 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…
• 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…
• No one starts as a self-hater. But rack up all of your mistakes and take a large enough number of wrong turns in life and…
• Would I still feel this way on leaving the party tonight? Or would I find cunning ways to latch on to minor defects so they'd…

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