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Top 25 Miguel Syjuco Quotes (2025 Update)

Miguel Syjuco Quote: “Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.”

1. “Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.”

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Miguel Syjuco Quote: “I have to believe that literature can effect change; otherwise, I would have no purpose in my life and would have wasted four years on Ilustrado.”

2. “I have to believe that literature can effect change; otherwise, I would have no purpose in my life and would have wasted four years on Ilustrado.”

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Miguel Syjuco Quote: “Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in the sense that it was the United States initial or baptismal experience in nation-building.”

3. “Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in the sense that it was the United States initial or baptismal experience in nation-building.”

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Miguel Syjuco Quote: “When I was young, I spent my days and nights trying to impress future generations. I spent them. They’re gone. All because I was deathly afraid of being forgotten. And then came the regret. The worst things of all worst things.”

4. “When I was young, I spent my days and nights trying to impress future generations. I spent them. They’re gone. All because I was deathly afraid of being forgotten. And then came the regret. The worst things of all worst things.”

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Miguel Syjuco Quote: “Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective.”

5. “Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective.”

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Miguel Syjuco Quote: “Perhaps we have stopped ourselves from being invented, from self-realization, by blaming others for our wordlessness.”

6. “Perhaps we have stopped ourselves from being invented, from self-realization, by blaming others for our wordlessness.”

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Miguel Syjuco Quote: “We referenced fictional characters as if they were people to learn from. As if real-life people were too nebulous, too private and unreal for us to understand.”

7. “We referenced fictional characters as if they were people to learn from. As if real-life people were too nebulous, too private and unreal for us to understand.”

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Miguel Syjuco Quote: “Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get.”

8. “Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get.”

— Miguel Syjuco

Miguel Syjuco Quote: “Freedom is the only thing we must demand in life, for all other good things stem from it.”

9. “Freedom is the only thing we must demand in life, for all other good things stem from it.”

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Miguel Syjuco Quote: “Love and honesty don’t mix.”

10. “Love and honesty don’t mix.”

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Miguel Syjuco Quote: “History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.”

11. “History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.”

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Miguel Syjuco Quote: “It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.”

12. “It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.”

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Miguel Syjuco Quote: “If our greatest fear is to sink away alone and unremembered, the brutality that time will inflict upon each of us will always run stronger than any river’s murky waves.”

13. “If our greatest fear is to sink away alone and unremembered, the brutality that time will inflict upon each of us will always run stronger than any river’s murky waves.”

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Miguel Syjuco Quote: “Angry men have little to live for when their rage becomes ineffective.”

14. “Angry men have little to live for when their rage becomes ineffective.”

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Miguel Syjuco Quote: “I’m home and safe and filled with the comfort of being somewhere I’ve already been. The ruckus of homecoming is brutally enjoyable and everyone makes me feel like a champion. And all I had to do was stay away long enough.”

15. “I’m home and safe and filled with the comfort of being somewhere I’ve already been. The ruckus of homecoming is brutally enjoyable and everyone makes me feel like a champion. And all I had to do was stay away long enough.”

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Miguel Syjuco Quote: “Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are so many grievances in the world.”

16. “Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are so many grievances in the world.”

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Miguel Syjuco Quote: “Oh, sweetheart. What can anyone do? That’s just the way things are. You really think you can change the world?”

17. “Oh, sweetheart. What can anyone do? That’s just the way things are. You really think you can change the world?”

— Miguel Syjuco

Miguel Syjuco Quote: “Being remembered is all anyone can ask from a lost love.”

18. “Being remembered is all anyone can ask from a lost love.”

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Miguel Syjuco Quote: “Cliches remind and reassure us that we’re not alone, that other have trod this ground long ago.”

19. “Cliches remind and reassure us that we’re not alone, that other have trod this ground long ago.”

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Miguel Syjuco Quote: “The instant before something comes into focus is more exciting than any sharp certainty. Photography, child, is about the passing of time. Capturing is the goal of literature. Timelessness is the task of music and painting. But a good photograph holds time just as a vase holds water. The water will evaporate and the vase becomes a memorial to it. What separates a snapshot from a masterpiece is that the latter is a metaphor of patience...”

20. “The instant before something comes into focus is more exciting than any sharp certainty. Photography, child, is about the passing of time. Capturing is the goal of literature. Timelessness is the task of music and painting. But a good photograph holds time just as a vase holds water. The water will evaporate and the vase becomes a memorial to it. What separates a snapshot from a masterpiece is that the latter is a metaphor of patience...”

— Miguel Syjuco

Miguel Syjuco Quote: “All of humanity’s crimes,′ Salvador said... ’are only degrees of theft.”

21. “All of humanity’s crimes,′ Salvador said... ’are only degrees of theft.”

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Miguel Syjuco Quote: “To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.”

22. “To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.”

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Miguel Syjuco Quote: “I transform fiction into memory.”

23. “I transform fiction into memory.”

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Miguel Syjuco Quote: “Children sometimes know best and we chide them for being precocious. Then we grow aged and become again like children, and they call us wise.”

24. “Children sometimes know best and we chide them for being precocious. Then we grow aged and become again like children, and they call us wise.”

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Miguel Syjuco Quote: “Maybe maturity is merely accepting the tally of all the disappearing options of life.”

25. “Maybe maturity is merely accepting the tally of all the disappearing options of life.”

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