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The Angel of History

Book by Rabih Alameddine · 7 quotes · Death, Illness, Memory

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“You looked inhuman when you were dying, Doc, your eyes glistened like dimming stars, you were wasting away and life was leaving you piecemeal, your soul no longer fit your body, you hated it and I hated it and I couldn't recognize you and I couldn't see you and I was frightened and I never knew what to do, I looked for the man I love in you and I searched for who I used to be around you and I couldn't find either.”

Death Dying Illness Mourning

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“Forgetting is as integral to memory as death is to life.”

Life Death Memory Forgetting Remembering

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“I told her I was not sure I could bear living with memories, she said, Look up at the stars, look, they are not there, what you see is the memory of what once was, once upon a time.”

Stars Memory Coping The Past

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“...I wondered at times whether I would wake up and this would be just a bad dream, a nightmare that I could wish away, I had the same fantasy when you were sick, Doc, that I would one day wake up and you all would be healthy and alive.”

Illness Aids Mourning Death And Dying

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“son camarade de table a ajouté qu'il avait essayé de regarder le plus possible de films sur le sida. C'est une bonne chose qu'il ne m'ait pas dit qu'il avait regardé Philadelphia, je l'aurais poignardé avec son couteau à beurre.”

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“On Lou's lips a trace of pinot and out of them poured tales of acts of viciousness worthy of the great Lucifer himself, stories told through the night, the tortures, the beatings, the broken bones, every school has its Tigellinus, but his had more than one and each with followers, all-American boys who delighted in discovering how much pain a soul could withstand, two suicide attempts and all his parents and school could do was try to make Lou change his behavior, his behavior, his behavior, his, his, his, to modify his being just a bit. It gets better, Doc, fucking gets better, no one dared suggest that maybe the family and the school should change, or heaven forbid, that it was the all-Americans who should be modifying their beings, no, the homo should grin and bear it dumbly...”

Hate Responsibility Oppression Bullying Homophobia Heteronormativity Homophobic Violence

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“I was always alone, Doc, solitary whether I wished to be or not, ever since I could remember I wished to be lost in another, thought that somehow I could disappear into that heart of yours, take walks within your veins, wander through the bones of you. You had friends, Satan said, you loved and were loved, you must not forget that, at least not that. But did I allow anyone in, I asked Satan, and he said, Did you, does anyone?”

Love Friendship Loneliness Vulnerability Isolation Opening Up

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