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Elena

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“Your grandmother had an icon, your mother had a little portrait of Lenin, and you have your TV.”
― Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

tags: icon, portraits, technology, tv

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“Now the last person who remembered me as a child is gone, I told myself. And only then did I burst into sobs, like a child.”
― Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

tags: child, childhood, death, loss, parent

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“Happy countries are all alike; each unhappy country is unhappy in its own way, as has been written.”
― Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

tags: countries, unhappy

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“In the end, writing arises when man realizes that memory is not enough.”
― Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

tags: memory, past, writing

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“Soon after that we would go our separate ways, grow cold, forget one another, the rebels would grow tame as teaching assistants in the universities, the sworn bachelors and party animals would be pushing baby carriages and zoning out in front of their TV, the hippies would get regular haircuts at the local barbershop.”
― Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

tags: age, change, growing-older

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