"As we walked, I began to wonder what the opposite of molting was and why, unlike the body, which sheds everything, the soul cannot let go but compiles and accumulates, growing annual rings around the things it wants and dreams and remembers"

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Source : André Aciman (2011). “False Papers”, p.61, Macmillan

AndrÃ© Aciman

#Letting Go Quotes #Dream Quotes #Opposites Quotes

“If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not fact, but something that gets you closer to the truth. That's what we want. When we go to a play, we need to be assured that the experience we're having.”
“I have a lot of secret uses for sour cream, which is the magic ingredient in my mac and cheese. It's an old-timey, Southern version, and the sour cream makes it that much creamier. Oh, it's so good!”
“Dating a tennis player is risky - love means nothing to us.”
“I've always identified people's taste in music as being kind of hetero and/or ***** - there's music people like because they feel like they have aesthetic similarity to it and the music they wish to create, and then there's music that represents the other, that they listen to because it represents an escape from the music that they have to make.”
“There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing.”
“Ghosts are those memories that are too strong to be forgotten for good, echoing across the years and refusing to be obliterated by time.”
“I wouldn't care if he lost both his legs and was in a wheelchair. But it he's having a hard time...Then I won't see him.”
“It's easy for people to grow up in our society believing that certain lifestyles are risk free when they certainly are not.”

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