Quoting Teju Cole, Known and Strange Things, 2016, Random House

Aciman returns to memory obsessively, looking for the words that can help him understand it better, finding solace in the idea of being in one place while desiring another, not for the sake of being in that other place, but for the sake of desire itself.

— Teju Cole, Known and Strange Things, 2016, Random House

8:53pm on October 5, 2024 from Turkey.


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