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The Lazarus Project

Aleksandar Hemon

Top 10 Best Quotes

“Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there. ”

“When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.”

“Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever. ”

“It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us. The daily work of love was often hard to perform at home. ”

“All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all that the world is.”

“There are moments in life when it is all turned inside out--what is real becomes unreal, what is unreal becomes tangible, and all your levelheaded efforts to keep a tight ontological control are rendered silly and indulgent.”

“I loved you because there was no other place for me to go. We were married because we did not know what else to do with each other. You never knew me, nothing about me, what died inside me, what lived invisibly.”

“The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough.”

“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.”

“Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.”

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Book Keywords:

delusions, distance, loss-of-control, shadows, love, desire, contentment, control, life, photographs, relationships, moments, home, nightmares, photography, belief, pictures

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