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We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!
— Andre Aciman Call Me by Your Name
Tags: love, italy, call-me-by-your-name, aciman

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For the religious, Passover is the grateful remembrance of a homeward journey after years of suffering.
— Andre Aciman
Tags: years, suffering, grateful, journey
I write - so it would seem - to recapture, to preserve and return to the past, though I might just as easily be writing to forget and put that past behind me.
— Andre Aciman
Tags: writing, forget, past, me
The last thing I want to do is to write about real things. I am not interested in reality and in real human beings and their real day-to-day problems - I just want to say to them, 'Hold still, and I'm just going to unpack, see what's inside.'
— Andre Aciman
Tags: real, problems, reality, i-am
The problem with Egypt is that there is no public trust. There is no trust, period.
— Andre Aciman
Tags: period, egypt, problem, trust
Nothing would have shocked Proust more than to hear that his work was perceived as difficult or inaccessibly rarefied.
— Andre Aciman
Tags: difficult, more, nothing, work
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