Aleksandar HemonThe incessant perpetuation of collective fantasies makes people crave the truth and nothing but the truth - reality is the fastest American commodity. ✨ Aleksandar Hemon (20… ▶372HumanityTruth
Aleksandar HemonThere 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 ontologi… ▶362LifeTime
Aleksandar HemonWe knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon. ✨ Aleksandar Hemon (2010). L… ▶352Love
Aleksandar HemonHome is where somebody notices when you are no longer there. ✨ Aleksandar Hemon (2009). The Lazarus Project, p.3, Pan Macmillan332Hope
Aleksandar HemonThe perfect borscht is what life should be but never is. ✨ Aleksandar Hemon (2013). The Book of My Lives, p.38, Macmillan311LifeReading
Aleksandar HemonBecause sometimes you have no control over life and it keeps you far away from who you love. ✨ Aleksandar Hemon (2009). The Lazarus Project, p.288, Pan Macmillan377LifeLoveTime
Aleksandar HemonI gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.333Thought
Aleksandar HemonI spotted a can in the corner whose red label read SADNESS. Was there so much of it they could can it and sell it? A bolt of pain went through my intestines before I realized that… ▶291ReadingSadness
Aleksandar HemonYour memories become fantasies if they are not shared, and your life in all its triviality becomes a legend. ✨ Aleksandar Hemon (2012). Nowhere Man, p.47, Pan Macmillan303Life
Aleksandar HemonYour nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever. ✨ Aleksandar Hemon (2009). The Lazarus Project, p.67, Pan Macmillan326Thought
Aleksandar HemonTime does nothing but hand you down shabbier and older things.316Time
Aleksandar HemonI read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started writing shorter pieces in English, and one of them g… ▶306Reading
Aleksandar HemonI 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 … ▶295DeathLove
Aleksandar HemonI 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 him… ▶339Philosophy
Aleksandar HemonI do have a sense of displacement as constant instability — the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.3410LifeLove
Aleksandar HemonBelief and delusion are incestuous siblings. ✨ Aleksandar Hemon (2009). The Lazarus Project, p.40, Pan Macmillan286Hope
Aleksandar HemonI wanted us to share the sense that the number of wrong moves far exceeds the number of good moves, to share the frightening instability of the correct decision, to bond in being … ▶254Reading
Aleksandar HemonIt is so much easier to deal with the dead than with the living. The dead are out of the way, merely characters from stories about the past, never again unreadable, no misundersta… ▶288DeathLifeReading
Aleksandar HemonIt 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 H… ▶246Love
Aleksandar HemonWhen 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 (2009). The Lazarus Project… ▶247Thought
Aleksandar HemonMy country's main exports are stolen cars and sadness. ✨ Aleksandar Hemon (2009). The Lazarus Project, p.73, Pan Macmillan192Sadness
Aleksandar HemonI dont make notes for myself because I either lose them or they make no sense to me at all. I once found a piece of paper with the note: everything. Apparently I made a note to my… ▶182Humor
Aleksandar HemonProjecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity ✨ Aleksandar Hemon (2013). The Book of My Lives, p.208, Macmilla… ▶151Reading
Aleksandar HemonIf you can't go home, there is nowhere to go, and nowhere is the biggest place in the world-indeed, nowhere is the world. ✨ Aleksandar Hemon (2008). The Lazarus Project, p.1… ▶228Philosophy
Aleksandar HemonMemory narrativises itself. ✨ Aleksandar Hemon: A personal history of Sarajevo by John Freeman, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2013.218Time
Aleksandar HemonOur daughter was born in Chicago, and she's already showing it. The temperature has to be approaching zero for her to wear a hat.187Reading
Aleksandar HemonThe more you lose, the more is to be lost, yet it matters less. ✨ Aleksandar Hemon (2009). The Lazarus Project, p.167, Pan Macmillan198Hope
Aleksandar HemonI am just like everybody else...because there is nobody like me in the whole world.199Politics
Aleksandar HemonAll 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 (2009). The Lazarus Proje… ▶135Humanity
Aleksandar HemonThe world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough. ✨ Aleksandar Hemon (2009). The Lazarus Project, p.3, Pan Macmillan138Love
