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Top 15 Georgi Gospodinov Quotes (2024 Update)

Georgi Gospodinov Quote: “I have always been born.”

1. “I have always been born.”

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Georgi Gospodinov Quote: “He has no friends, no living relatives. No one to call. If we are not in someone else’s memory, do we even exist at all?”

2. “He has no friends, no living relatives. No one to call. If we are not in someone else’s memory, do we even exist at all?”

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Georgi Gospodinov Quote: “The past settles into afternoons, that’s where time visibly slows down, it dozes off in the corners, blinking like a cat looking through thin blinds. It’s always afternoon when you remember something, at least that’s how it is for me. Everything is in the light.”

3. “The past settles into afternoons, that’s where time visibly slows down, it dozes off in the corners, blinking like a cat looking through thin blinds. It’s always afternoon when you remember something, at least that’s how it is for me. Everything is in the light.”

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Georgi Gospodinov Quote: “The only thing I had was Laika, the dog, whose homeless soul was howling through the cosmos. And my brother, the Minotaur.”

4. “The only thing I had was Laika, the dog, whose homeless soul was howling through the cosmos. And my brother, the Minotaur.”

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Georgi Gospodinov Quote: “I looked like a person who wanted to abandon his own abandonment around some corner. Like someone looking for a distant and unknown place to release the cats of his sorrow, so that they would never find the way home. Do you know how hard it is to get rid of cats?”

5. “I looked like a person who wanted to abandon his own abandonment around some corner. Like someone looking for a distant and unknown place to release the cats of his sorrow, so that they would never find the way home. Do you know how hard it is to get rid of cats?”

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Georgi Gospodinov Quote: “I dream that I’m beautiful. Not exactly beautiful, but inconspicuous. That’s what it means to be beautiful, to be like everyone else. My head feels light. My eyes are on the front of my face. I have a nose, rather than nostrils. I have human skin, thin human skin. I walk down the street and no one notices me. Now that’s happiness – no one noticing me. It’s a happy dream.”

6. “I dream that I’m beautiful. Not exactly beautiful, but inconspicuous. That’s what it means to be beautiful, to be like everyone else. My head feels light. My eyes are on the front of my face. I have a nose, rather than nostrils. I have human skin, thin human skin. I walk down the street and no one notices me. Now that’s happiness – no one noticing me. It’s a happy dream.”

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Georgi Gospodinov Quote: “Somewhere in the Andes, they believe to this very day that the future is behind you. It comes up from behind your back, surprising and unforeseeable, while the past is always before your eyes, that which has already happened. When they talk about the past, the people of the Aymara tribe point in front of them. You walk forward facing the past and you turn back toward the future.”

7. “Somewhere in the Andes, they believe to this very day that the future is behind you. It comes up from behind your back, surprising and unforeseeable, while the past is always before your eyes, that which has already happened. When they talk about the past, the people of the Aymara tribe point in front of them. You walk forward facing the past and you turn back toward the future.”

— Georgi Gospodinov

Georgi Gospodinov Quote: “Time feeds on us. We are food for time.”

8. “Time feeds on us. We are food for time.”

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Georgi Gospodinov Quote: “There is no time machine except the human being.”

9. “There is no time machine except the human being.”

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Georgi Gospodinov Quote: “The past grows like a weed.”

10. “The past grows like a weed.”

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Georgi Gospodinov Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

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Georgi Gospodinov Quote: “Forgetting takes a lot of work. You have to constantly remember that you are supposed to forget something. Surely, that’s how every ideology functions.”

12. “Forgetting takes a lot of work. You have to constantly remember that you are supposed to forget something. Surely, that’s how every ideology functions.”

— Georgi Gospodinov

Georgi Gospodinov Quote: “Everything always comes down to language in the end.”

13. “Everything always comes down to language in the end.”

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Georgi Gospodinov Quote: “We are constantly producing the past. We are factories for the past. Living past-making machines, what else? We eat time and produce the past. Even death doesn’t put a stop to this. A person might be gone, but his past remains.”

14. “We are constantly producing the past. We are factories for the past. Living past-making machines, what else? We eat time and produce the past. Even death doesn’t put a stop to this. A person might be gone, but his past remains.”

— Georgi Gospodinov

Georgi Gospodinov Quote: “In the end, writing arises when man realizes that memory is not enough.”

15. “In the end, writing arises when man realizes that memory is not enough.”

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Georgi Gospodinov Quote: “There is something in this Lametrie, a nice slip of our anthropocentrism. Why should Man be at the hub of all analogies? How would plants describe us, I wonder, what classification would they impose upon us? ‘Described by a Plant’ sounds like a good title to be used later. I feel we’re being watched: by rubber plants, sparrow-grass, bonsai, small date palms, Chinese roses, geraniums and lemon trees. They keep an eye on us.”

16. “There is something in this Lametrie, a nice slip of our anthropocentrism. Why should Man be at the hub of all analogies? How would plants describe us, I wonder, what classification would they impose upon us? ‘Described by a Plant’ sounds like a good title to be used later. I feel we’re being watched: by rubber plants, sparrow-grass, bonsai, small date palms, Chinese roses, geraniums and lemon trees. They keep an eye on us.”

— Georgi Gospodinov

Georgi Gospodinov Quote: “You can’t make a museum to preserve something that has never left.”

17. “You can’t make a museum to preserve something that has never left.”

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Georgi Gospodinov Quote: “It’s well known that our inept homegrown police of all eras have always shown unerring taste in poets and writers – they always manage to kill the most talented and leave the most mediocre.”

18. “It’s well known that our inept homegrown police of all eras have always shown unerring taste in poets and writers – they always manage to kill the most talented and leave the most mediocre.”

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Georgi Gospodinov Quote: “His other discovery, divine and scientific, was that ants hate the scent of humans. If you trace a circle around an ant with your finger, it will run up against that invisible border as if you had built a wall.”

19. “His other discovery, divine and scientific, was that ants hate the scent of humans. If you trace a circle around an ant with your finger, it will run up against that invisible border as if you had built a wall.”

— Georgi Gospodinov

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