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Aleksandar Hemon Quotes

The cafeteria in the Chicago's Children's Memorial Hospital basement was the saddest place in the world-and forever it shall be-with its grim neon lights and gray tabletops and the diffuse foreboding of those who stepped away from suffering children to have a grilled cheese sandwich Picture Quote #1

One of the most despicable religious fallacies is that suffering is ennobling, that it is a step on the path to some kind of enlightenment or salvation Picture Quote #1

Isabel's indelible absence is now an organ in our bodies whose sole function is a continuous secretion of sorrow Picture Quote #1

Then everyone would retreat for a nap, after which we would have coffee and cake, sometimes an argument Picture Quote #1

I wanted us to share the sense that the number of wrong moves far exceeds the number of good moves, to share the frightening instability of the correct decision, to bond in being confounded Picture Quote #1

If you can't go home, there is nowhere to go, and nowhere is the biggest place in the world - indeed, nowhere is the world Picture Quote #1

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All the lives we could live, all the people we will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is what the world is Picture Quote #1

And did the biblical Lazarus have a mother? What did she do when he was resurrected? Did he bid her good-bye before he returned to his undeath? Was he the same son to her undead as he was alive? I read that he sailed to Marseilles with his sisters afterward, where he may or may not have died again Picture Quote #1

It was different in America: the incessant perpetuation of collective fantasies makes people crave the truth and nothing but the truth - reality is the fastest American commodity Picture Quote #1

I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul Picture Quote #1

People here snarl and frown a lot, he wrote; he had seen neither a smile nor the sun in months. What is life without beauty, love, and justice? Picture Quote #1

I take picture because I like to look at the pictures I take. It seems to me that when people take a picture of something, they instantly forget about it. They can look at the picture and remind themselves Picture Quote #1

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It is so much easier to deal with the dead than with the living. The dead are out of the way, merely characters from stories about the past, never again unreadable, no misunderstandings possible, the pain coming from them stable and manageable. nor do you have to explain yourself to them, to justify the fact of your life Picture Quote #1

We know that laws ought to be obeyed only if they come out of people's sense of justice, not because the state needs them to preserve its power. Laws devised for the depravity of power are as worthless as the paper they are printed on Picture Quote #1

My dreams were but a means of forgetting, they were the branches tied to the galloping horses of our days, the emptying of the garbage so that tomorrow - assuming there would be a tomorrow - could be filled up with new life. You die, you forget, you wake up new Picture Quote #1

If you find yourself asking: How did I get here? Isador once said, that probably means you are living a life worth living Picture Quote #1

You've never been married, so you don't know, but it is a fragile thing. Nothing ever goes away, everything stays inside it. It is a different reality Picture Quote #1

The end of the world might be near, Isador said to her once, but we don't have to rush to reach it Picture Quote #1

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If you wait long enough, something will happen - there has never been a time when nothing happened Picture Quote #1

I know as well as anybody how hard it is to live after a grave loss. But life needs to go on, it must never stop. It is our duty to keep life going Picture Quote #1

God knows our despair. God wants His chosen people to live in peace. God loves life, cares less about death. We need to live. I want to live, I want my children to live. Everyone I know wants to live. You have to ask yourself what is more important to you, life is death. What is this world about - life or death? Picture Quote #1

We are within our life and we stay there for as long as possible, that's our home. We need life. There is too much death already, and there is probably more coming our way Picture Quote #1

What is life? This is no life. Who wants this life? The dead leave it to us to struggle in this world. They go elsewhere, wherever it is, and wait for God to sort it all out. But we have to stay here, no matter how hard it is. Nobody can be alone. Life is the life of others. My life, your life, that is nothing Picture Quote #1

If there are more dead than living, then the world is about death, and the question is: What are we to do with all the death? Who is going to remember all the dead? Picture Quote #1

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I think it is about life. I think there is always more life than death. Those who lived are always alive for someone. Those who are alive remember life, not death. And when you are dead nothing happens. Death is nothing Picture Quote #1

I will never know you, nothing about you, what has died inside you, what has lived invisibly. I am elsewhere now Picture Quote #1

Because sometimes you have no control over life and it keeps you far away from who you love Picture Quote #1

You have to create a form from the life that exists, not the other way around. If it comes out in these little pieces, that's what it is Picture Quote #1

One builds one's life in consistency; one invests it with the belief, however unsupported by reality, that one has always been what one is now, that even in one's distant past one could recognize the seed from which this doomed flower has bloomed Picture Quote #1

And the world around me was nothing if not an infinity of distractions: cute girls, novels and comic books, my budding record collection, neighborhood boys whistling from the playground under my window, beckoning me to a soccer game Picture Quote #1

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The cafeteria in the Chicago's Children's Memorial Hospital basement was the saddest place in the world-and forever it shall be-with its grim neon lights and gray tabletops and the diffuse foreboding of those who stepped away from suffering children to have a grilled cheese sandwich (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) One of the most despicable religious fallacies is that suffering is ennobling, that it is a step on the path to some kind of enlightenment or salvation (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) Isabel's indelible absence is now an organ in our bodies whose sole function is a continuous secretion of sorrow (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) Then everyone would retreat for a nap, after which we would have coffee and cake, sometimes an argument (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) I wanted us to share the sense that the number of wrong moves far exceeds the number of good moves, to share the frightening instability of the correct decision, to bond in being confounded (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) If you can't go home, there is nowhere to go, and nowhere is the biggest place in the world - indeed, nowhere is the world (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) All the lives we could live, all the people we will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is what the world is (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) And did the biblical Lazarus have a mother? What did she do when he was resurrected? Did he bid her good-bye before he returned to his undeath? Was he the same son to her undead as he was alive? I read that he sailed to Marseilles with his sisters afterward, where he may or may not have died again (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) It was different in America: the incessant perpetuation of collective fantasies makes people crave the truth and nothing but the truth - reality is the fastest American commodity (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) People here snarl and frown a lot, he wrote; he had seen neither a smile nor the sun in months. What is life without beauty, love, and justice? (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) I take picture because I like to look at the pictures I take. It seems to me that when people take a picture of something, they instantly forget about it. They can look at the picture and remind themselves (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) It is so much easier to deal with the dead than with the living. The dead are out of the way, merely characters from stories about the past, never again unreadable, no misunderstandings possible, the pain coming from them stable and manageable. nor do you have to explain yourself to them, to justify the fact of your life (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) We know that laws ought to be obeyed only if they come out of people's sense of justice, not because the state needs them to preserve its power. Laws devised for the depravity of power are as worthless as the paper they are printed on (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) My dreams were but a means of forgetting, they were the branches tied to the galloping horses of our days, the emptying of the garbage so that tomorrow - assuming there would be a tomorrow - could be filled up with new life. You die, you forget, you wake up new (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) If you find yourself asking: How did I get here? Isador once said, that probably means you are living a life worth living (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) You've never been married, so you don't know, but it is a fragile thing. Nothing ever goes away, everything stays inside it. It is a different reality (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) The end of the world might be near, Isador said to her once, but we don't have to rush to reach it (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) If you wait long enough, something will happen - there has never been a time when nothing happened (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) I know as well as anybody how hard it is to live after a grave loss. But life needs to go on, it must never stop. It is our duty to keep life going (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) God knows our despair. God wants His chosen people to live in peace. God loves life, cares less about death. We need to live. I want to live, I want my children to live. Everyone I know wants to live. You have to ask yourself what is more important to you, life is death. What is this world about - life or death? (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) We are within our life and we stay there for as long as possible, that's our home. We need life. There is too much death already, and there is probably more coming our way (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) What is life? This is no life. Who wants this life? The dead leave it to us to struggle in this world. They go elsewhere, wherever it is, and wait for God to sort it all out. But we have to stay here, no matter how hard it is. Nobody can be alone. Life is the life of others. My life, your life, that is nothing (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) If there are more dead than living, then the world is about death, and the question is: What are we to do with all the death? Who is going to remember all the dead? (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) I think it is about life. I think there is always more life than death. Those who lived are always alive for someone. Those who are alive remember life, not death. And when you are dead nothing happens. Death is nothing (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) I will never know you, nothing about you, what has died inside you, what has lived invisibly. I am elsewhere now (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) Because sometimes you have no control over life and it keeps you far away from who you love (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) You have to create a form from the life that exists, not the other way around. If it comes out in these little pieces, that's what it is (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) One builds one's life in consistency; one invests it with the belief, however unsupported by reality, that one has always been what one is now, that even in one's distant past one could recognize the seed from which this doomed flower has bloomed (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes) And the world around me was nothing if not an infinity of distractions: cute girls, novels and comic books, my budding record collection, neighborhood boys whistling from the playground under my window, beckoning me to a soccer game (Aleksandar Hemon Quotes)

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