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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.
— Teju Cole Open City
Tags: spiritual, sorrow, life-lessons, life-and-death, life, death, answer

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Religion is close to theatre; much of its power comes from the effects of staging and framing.
— Teju Cole
Tags: close, theatre, power, religion
A mob is not, as is so often said, mindless. A mob is single-minded.
— Teju Cole
Tags: mindless, often, mob, said
One of the chief characteristics of a mob is its quickness. It is sudden. It pounces.
— Teju Cole
Tags: sudden, chief, characteristics, mob
Punitive murder by the police and by vigilantes has existed in all societies at some point, and probably still exists in most.
— Teju Cole
Tags: point, most, some, police
Throughout his career, W.G. Sebald wrote poems that were strikingly similar to his prose. His tone, in both genres, was always understated but possessed of a mournful grandeur.
— Teju Cole
Tags: tone, his, career, always
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