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    André Aciman
    “We had the stars, you and I. And this is given once only.”
    ― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “All my speculations and hopes are as nothing; and, like the archangel who aspired to omnipotence, I am chained in an eternal hell.”
    ― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
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    André Aciman
    “We are not written for an instrument alone; I am not, neither are you.”
    ― André Aciman
    tags: call-me-by-your-name
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    James Baldwin
    “Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”
    ― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
    tags: anchoring, attachment, belonging, comfort, completion, fulfillment, home, irrevocability, permanence, philosophy, psychology, safety, security, state-of-mind
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    André Aciman
    “If there is any truth in the world, it lies when I'm with you, and if I find the courage to speak my truth to you one day, remind me to light a candle in thanksgiving at every altar in Rome.”
    ― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name
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    James Baldwin
    “Somebody" said Jacques, "your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour--and in the oddest places!--for the lack of it.”
    ― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
    tags: death, lessons, loneliness, love, survival
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    André Aciman
    “Time makes us sentimental. Perhaps, in the end, it is because of time that we suffer.”
    ― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
    tags: happiness, lasting, pleasure, temporary
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    James Baldwin
    “People can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life.”
    ― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
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    André Aciman
    “If I could have him like this in my dreams every night of my life, I'd stake my entire life on dreams and be done with the rest.”
    ― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name
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    André Aciman
    “And on that evening when we grow older still we'll speak about these two young men as though they were two strangers we met on the train and whom we admire and want to help along. And we'll want to call it envy, because to call it regret would break our hearts.”
    ― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name
    tags: choices-and-consequences, love-and-loss, unrequited-love
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
    tags: frankenstein, monster
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    James Baldwin
    “Much has been written of love turning to hatred, of the heart growing cold with the death of love. It is a remarkable process. It is far more terrible than anything I have ever read about it, more terrible than anything I will ever be able to say.”
    ― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
    tags: giovanni-s-room, hate, hatred, james-baldwin, love, love-to-hate, sad, terrible
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “And I do nothing but dream every day that at last I shall meet some one. Oh, if only you knew how often I have been in love in that way...." "How? With whom?..." "Why, with no one, with an ideal, with the one I dream of in my sleep.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights and Other Stories: The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Your hand is cold, mine burns like fire. How blind you are, Nastenka!”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
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    James Baldwin
    “Nobody can stay in the garden of Eden," Jacques said. And then: "I wonder why.”
    ― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
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    André Aciman
    “We are not written for one instrument alone; I am not, neither are you.”
    ― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name
    tags: relationships
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Beauty will save the world.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
    tags: beauty
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    André Aciman
    “Is it better to speak or die?”
    ― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name
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    André Aciman
    “Most of us can't help but live as though we've got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the finished version, and then there are all those versions in between. But there's only one, and before you know it, your heart is worn out, and, as for your body, there comes a point when no one looks at it, much less wants to come near it. Right now there's sorrow. I don't envy the pain. But I envy you the pain. (p. 225)”
    ― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name
    tags: choices-and-consequences, coming-out, love-and-loss, unrequited-love
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
    ― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
    tags: change, human
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    André Aciman
    “I suddenly realized that we were on borrowed time, that time is always borrowed, and that the lending agency exacts its premium precisely when we are least prepared to pay and need to borrow more...”
    ― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: hell, love, suffering
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    André Aciman
    “Look me in the face, hold my gaze, and call me by your name.”
    ― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name
    tags: call-me-by-your-name, elio, oliver
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    James Baldwin
    “You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.”
    ― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
    tags: home
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    André Aciman
    “He came. He left. Nothing else had changed. I had not changed. The world hadn't changed. Yet nothing would be the same. All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.”
    ― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name
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    André Aciman
    “Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.”
    ― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name
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    André Aciman
    “Twenty years was yesterday, and yesterday was just earlier this morning, and morning seemed light-years away.”
    ― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name
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    André Aciman
    “They are embossed on every song that was a hit that summer, in every novel I read during and after his stay, on anything from the smell of rosemary on hot days to the frantic rattle of the cicadas in the afternoon—smells and sounds I’d grown up with and known every year of my life until then but that had suddenly turned on me and acquired an inflection forever colored by the events of that summer.”
    ― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name
    tags: love, memory, summertime
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    André Aciman
    “I’m not wise at all. I told you, I know nothing. I know books, and I know how to string words together—it doesn’t mean I know how to speak about the things that matter most to me.”
    ― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name
    tags: andre-aciman, armie-hammer, call-me-by-your-name, timothy-chalamet
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