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The Lazarus Project QUOTES

The Lazarus Project QUOTES

1 " 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. "

― Aleksandar Hemon , The Lazarus Project

2 " Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever. "

― Aleksandar Hemon , The Lazarus Project

3 " 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. "

― Aleksandar Hemon , The Lazarus Project

4 " 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. "

― Aleksandar Hemon , The Lazarus Project

5 " Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings. "

― Aleksandar Hemon , The Lazarus Project

6 " The writer does not dare dream of giving the best of his individuality. No, he must never express his anger. The vacillating demands of mediocrity must be satisfied. Amuse the people, be their clown, give them platitudes about which they can laugh, shadows of truth which they can hold as truths. "

― Aleksandar Hemon , The Lazarus Project

7 " I told her I hated normal people and the land of the fucking free and the home of the asshole brave, and I hated God and George and all and everything. "

― Aleksandar Hemon , The Lazarus Project

8 " So you are Catholic? Didn't know that.
I am nothing, I said. God knows God is no friend of mine. But I envy people who believe in this crap. They don't worry about the meaning of life and things, whereas I do. "

― Aleksandar Hemon , The Lazarus Project

9 " One person's garbage is another person's commodity. "

― Aleksandar Hemon , The Lazarus Project

10 " 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. "

― Aleksandar Hemon , The Lazarus Project

11 " Mujo is a refugee in Germany, has no job, but has a lot of time, so he goes to a Turkish bath. The bath is full of German businessmen with towels around their waists, huffing and puffing, but every once in a while a cell phone rings and they pull their phone out from under the towel and say, Bitte? Mujo seems to be the only one without a cell phone, so he goes to the bathroom and stuffs toilet paper up his butt. He walks back out, a long trail of toilet paper behind him. So a German says, you have some paper, Herr, sticking out behind you. Oh, Mujo says, it looks like I have received a fax. "

― Aleksandar Hemon , The Lazarus Project

12 " Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there. "

― Aleksandar Hemon , The Lazarus Project

13 " Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever. "

― Aleksandar Hemon , The Lazarus Project

14 " 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. "

― Aleksandar Hemon , The Lazarus Project

15 " The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough. "

― Aleksandar Hemon , The Lazarus Project

16 " 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 , The Lazarus Project

17 " I recognized him then; that is, I finally comprehended what I had known but had never been able to formulate: he had always been complete. He had finished the work of becoming himself, long before any of us could even imagine such a feat was possible. "

― Aleksandar Hemon , The Lazarus Project

18 " My country's main exports are stolen cars and sadness. "

― Aleksandar Hemon , The Lazarus Project

19 " I am just like everybody else...because there is nobody like me in the whole world. "

― Aleksandar Hemon , The Lazarus Project

20 " Because sometimes you have no control over life and it keeps you far away from who you love. "

― Aleksandar Hemon , The Lazarus Project