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Rituals are the building blocks of life, my way of cobbling an entire summer together from incidental wisps.

~Andre Aciman

Topics: Blocks Building Building Blocks Entire Life Rituals Summer Together Way

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There comes the time at every Passover seder when someone will open a door to let in the prophet Elijah. At that moment, something like a spell invariably descends over the celebrants, and everyone stares into the doorway, trying to make out the quiet movements of the prophet as he glides his way in and takes the empty seat among us.

~Andre Aciman

Topics: Among Descend Door Doorway Empty Every Everyone He His His Way Invariably Like Make Moment Movements Open Out Over Prophet Quiet Seat Someone Something Spell Takes Time Trying Us Way Will

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Whenever we're having a great time, we're already anticipating the day when we will remember this great time. Many of us live in that unreal area between the past, the present, and the future.

~Andre Aciman

Topics: Area Between Day Future Great Great Time Having Live Many Past Present Remember Time Unreal Us Whenever Will

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Take away our things, and something in us dies.

~Andre Aciman

Topics: Away Dies Our Something Take Things Us

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In Alexandria, my birthplace and my home, all streets bearing Jewish names have been renamed.

~Andre Aciman

Topics: Alexandria Bearing Been Birthplace Home Jewish Names Streets

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Losing his wealth, his home, the life he had built, killed my father. He didn't die right away; it took four decades of exile to finish him off.

~Andre Aciman

Topics: Away Built Decades Die Exile Father Finish Four Had He Him His Home Life Losing Off Right Right Away Took Wealth

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Homer, Vergil, Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe, Proust - not exactly authors one expects to whiz through or take lightly, but like all works of genius, they are meant to be read out loud and loved.

~Andre Aciman

Topics: Authors Exactly Expects Genius Goethe Homer Lightly Like Loud Loved Meant Meant To Be Out Read Shakespeare Take Through Works

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Nothing would have shocked Proust more than to hear that his work was perceived as difficult or inaccessibly rarefied.

~Andre Aciman

Topics: Difficult Hear His More Nothing Perceived Shocked Than Work Would

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Proust is interested in minutiae because life, as he sees it, is seldom ever about things but about our impression of things, not about facts but about the interpretation of facts, not about one particular feeling but about a confluence of conflicting feelings. Everything is elusive in Proust because nothing is ever certain.

~Andre Aciman

Topics: About Because Certain Conflicting Elusive Ever Everything Facts Feeling Feelings He Impression Interested Interpretation Life Nothing Our Particular Sees Seldom Things

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It is Proust's implacable honesty, his reluctance to cut corners or to articulate what might have been good enough or credible enough in any other writer that make him the introspective genius he is.

~Andre Aciman

Topics: Any Articulate Been Corners Credible Cut Enough Genius Good He Him His Honesty Introspective Make Might Other Reluctance Writer

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: January 2nd, 1951

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