He was not the type to say that experience is all to the good, that nothing is wasted in life, that everyone we meet and everywhere we go, down to the most squalid, insignificant job we hold, plays a tiny role in making us who we become. ... There were no second chances in his book of life; you simply dipped into yourself and pawned the little that was left from earlier deaths.
André AcimanMots clés who-we-become
To live with yourself you had to cut off the hand that offended, cut, slice, peel, scrape, and tear away at yourself till all you were left with were your stripped-down bones. Your bones gave you away; you could not hide your bones, nor could you avoid staring at them. All you wanted was for others to be stripped down like you ...
André AcimanMots clés bare-bones
...he, of all people, understood all about these hidden mainsprings in the twisted gadgetry of the soul.
André AcimanMots clés soul
Perhaps he was a stand-in for who I was, a primitive version of the me I'd lost track of and sloughed off in America. My shadow self, my picture of Dorian Gray, my mad brother in the attic, my Mr Hyde, my very, very rough draft. Me unmasked, unchained, unleashed, unfinished: me untrammeled, me in rags, me enraged. Me without books, without finish, without a green card. Me with a Kalashnikov.
André AcimanMots clés me
What did I tell you?" Kalaj turned to me without even looking at the owner. "Everyone shuts their door in the end.
André AcimanMots clés closed-door
No one starts as a self-hater. But rack up all of your mistakes and take a large enough number of wrong turns in life and soon you stop trying to forgive yourself. Everywhere you look you find shame or failure staring back.
André AcimanMots clés self-hate
Because I didn't want to forget was the heart and soul of poetry.
André AcimanMots clés poetry
...in my world, a man who darns his own socks is not a man.
André AcimanMots clés darn-masculinity
I liked forgetting my cares. Thanks to wine, you didn't forget them, they just stopped scaring you for a while.
André AcimanMots clés care-of-wine
It was not flirting, just verbal ping-pong. I was dying to slam the ball but too polite to stop the back-and-forth.
André AcimanMots clés ping-pong
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