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Chronicle of a Last Summer: A Novel of Egypt QUOTES

Chronicle of a Last Summer: A Novel of Egypt QUOTES

1 " I asked her who would teach me about life being unfair. She said time. "

― , Chronicle of a Last Summer: A Novel of Egypt

2 " There isn't a language for what we are living in. We need our own vocabulary, not just new forms in literature and art...I cross the square towards the university thinking about this, my next letter to A, how I will write to him about the feeling of being muted. Not having a language, gestural. How do you even initiate intimacy or the expression of desire? "

― , Chronicle of a Last Summer: A Novel of Egypt

3 " I imagine that if he were still alive and I told him now that I wish I could preserve the older memories, erase what they have been replaced by, he would tell me that to be a witness to history is a burden for the chosen. "

― , Chronicle of a Last Summer: A Novel of Egypt