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Rilke said that art can come only out of inner necessity. I write because I must. Or because I cannot not write.
Aleksandar Hemon
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Aleksandar Hemon
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: September 9
Journalist
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Writer
City of Sarajevo
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Rilke
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The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as a solid, uncomplicated person, with refined life goals and achievements.
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There are many things I think about that never get to the point of becoming serious. In other words, I try to talk myself out of writing, sometimes for many years, and when I run out of arguments, I write.
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My skin was the border between the world and me.
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Sometimes I don't write at all. Someone once asked me, What do you do when you're not writing? And I said, I idle.
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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 want to change something. I want to stop the germs from attacking my daughters.
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Washington D.C.! Congress is full of self-declared outsiders.
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