It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.

Miguel Syjuco

Tags: individuality life



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Love and honesty don’t mix.

Miguel Syjuco

Tags: honesty love relationships



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To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.

Miguel Syjuco

Tags: writing



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You can’t bring an unwritten place to life without losing something substantial. Manila is the cradle, the graveyard, the memory. The Mecca, the Cathedral, the bordello. The shopping mall, the urinal, the discotheque. I’m hardly speaking in metaphor. It’s the most impermeable of cities. How does one convey all that?

Miguel Syjuco

Tags: philippines manila



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We referenced fictional characters as if they were people to learn from. As if real-life people were too nebulous, too private and unreal for us to understand.

Miguel Syjuco

Tags: life



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Oh, how wonderfully romantic of you. Romantics are really only in love with themselves.

Miguel Syjuco

Tags: life love romance relationships



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I'm home and safe and filled with the comfort of being somewhere I've already been. The ruckus of homecoming is brutally enjoyable and everyone makes me feel like a champion. And all I had to do was stay away long enough.

Miguel Syjuco

Tags: homecoming balikbayan



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When I was young, I spent my days and nights trying to impress future generations. I spent them. They’re gone. All because I was deathly afraid of being forgotten. And then came the regret. The worst things of all worst things.

Miguel Syjuco

Tags: regret



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Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get.

Miguel Syjuco

Tags: angst desire



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Perhaps we have stopped ourselves from being invented, from self-realization, by blaming others for our wordlessness.

Miguel Syjuco

Tags: identity



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