Quotes from work
The Lazarus Project

The Lazarus Project is a novel by Bosnian fiction writer and journalist Aleksandar Hemon. It features the true story of the death of Lazarus Averbuch. It was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award, and the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award. It was the winner of the inaugural Jan Michalski Prize for Literature in 2010.

“I loved you because there was no other place for me to go. We were married because we did not know what else to do with each other. You never knew me, nothing about me, what died inside me, what lived invisibly.”

Aleksandar Hemon The Lazarus Project

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“Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.”

Aleksandar Hemon The Lazarus Project

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“All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all that the world is.”

Aleksandar Hemon The Lazarus Project

Variant: All the lives we could live, all the people we will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is what the world is.
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“Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.”

Aleksandar Hemon The Lazarus Project

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“The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough.”

Aleksandar Hemon The Lazarus Project

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“Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever.”

Aleksandar Hemon The Lazarus Project

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“When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.”

Aleksandar Hemon The Lazarus Project

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