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The world is always greater than your desires plenty is never enough.
Aleksandar Hemon
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Aleksandar Hemon
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: September 9
Journalist
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City of Sarajevo
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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.
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I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction.
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