"To be alive, it seemed to me, as……" — Teju Cole
"To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone."
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38 Quotes by Teju Cole
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I couldn't remember what life was like before I started walking.
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Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of…
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I became aware of just how fleeting the sense of happiness was, and how flimsy its basis: a warm restaurant…
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Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a different air…
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But a book suggests conversation: one person is speaking to another, and audible sound is, or should be, natural to…
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It is dangerous to live in a secure world.
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I adore imaginary monsters, but I am terrified of real ones.
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I deeply respect American sentimentality, the way one respects a wounded hippo. You must keep an eye on it, for…
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The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten.
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It wasn't a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge.
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We experience life as a continuity, and only after it falls away, after it becomes the past, do we see…
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I suddenly feel a vague pity for all those writers who have to ply their trade from sleepy American suburbs,…
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No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were…
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I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.
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Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
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The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher. That's why, in prayer, we can ask the Lord to open up…
— Michele Bachmann
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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and…
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me…
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I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express…
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My biggest fear ever is to be involved in a plane crash, so when that happened... well, I'm just thankful…
— Travis Barker
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As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then…
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The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I…
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