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
Take away our things, and something in us dies.
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.
We are, each one of us, not just defined by the arrangement of protein molecules in our cells, but also by the things we call our own.
In Alexandria, my birthplace and my home, all streets bearing Jewish names have been renamed.
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.
