34 Quotes & Sayings By Angelos Michalopoulos

Angelos Michalopoulos is an international bestselling author. He is the winner of the prestigious Man Booker International Prize for his novel 'The Hut Hut Bang Bang'. He has published eleven works of fiction and non-fiction, including the novels 'The Great Fire', 'The Last Days of the Romanovs' and 'Another Day in Paradise', as well as two collections of short stories, 'The Simple Life' and 'The Last Minutes'. His work has been translated into over twenty languages Read more

Angelos lives in London.

A good loneliness is better than a bad friendship.
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A good loneliness is better than a bad friendship. Angelos Michalopoulos
I trust the man, much less the men, not at...
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I trust the man, much less the men, not at all the crowd. Angelos Michalopoulos
When a man decides to destroy his past, he automatically...
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When a man decides to destroy his past, he automatically ends up destroying the part of his future that he will need the most Angelos Michalopoulos
My meanness has an ego too, often bigger than my...
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My meanness has an ego too, often bigger than my own. Angelos Michalopoulos
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We not only don’t have fun with what we are supposed to enjoy, but whatever we don’t enjoy has started having fun with us. Angelos Michalopoulos
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Create a tomorrow that has more than just one day in it. Angelos Michalopoulos
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Don’t ask me to distance myself from the person I cannot become. Angelos Michalopoulos
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How will I ever learn to forget what I can no longer delete? Angelos Michalopoulos
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Living one floor below Paradise. Angelos Michalopoulos
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I am the sum of all the words I’ve said to you, I am the sum of all the things I’ve done to you. I’m the sum of all my right decisions and all my mistakes, all my triumphs and all my defeats, I’m all the moments I daredand all those I was scared, all the ugliness I createdand all the beauty I destroyed. Angelos Michalopoulos
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In a family, no matter how dysfunctional she is, when one member loses, when one becomes smaller, all lose, all end up becoming smaller. Angelos Michalopoulos
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Unfortunately I never learnedhow to touch my truth without breaking it. Angelos Michalopoulos
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I am more free than I think and more enslaved than I fear. Angelos Michalopoulos
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I am what my past allows me to be. Angelos Michalopoulos
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A fire is born long before its first flame. Angelos Michalopoulos
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I am the product of any imperfection of mine I have never used to make my life better. Angelos Michalopoulos
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The only thing that is stronger than what I fear is what I believe in. Angelos Michalopoulos
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I have to find out who I am before my doubts discover it first. Angelos Michalopoulos
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What do you call a slap that`s waiting an inch away from your cheek refusing to back away? A caress Angelos Michalopoulos
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Each time you stare at a blank page, you end up staring at yourself. Angelos Michalopoulos
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In order to faster become the person I wanted to, I decided to deceive my own dreams. Angelos Michalopoulos
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There are no insensitive hearts, just hearts that don`t find it profitable anymore to feel. Angelos Michalopoulos
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How is it possible, as you get to know someone better, to realize how good his past is at not letting you find out anything more about him? Angelos Michalopoulos
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Neither wit nor beauty nor riches can conquer misery, only kindness can. Angelos Michalopoulos
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When I learned how to calculate, I stopped counting. When I learned how to smile, I stopped being afraid. When I learned to understand what my cowardice wants from me, I stopped retreating. Angelos Michalopoulos
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Emotional fog is what a man feels when he begins to answer the questions he has not yet dared to ask himself. Angelos Michalopoulos
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The dictatorship of hate has by now completely vanquished the democracy of pleasure. Angelos Michalopoulos
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I was always able to descend the uphills of my life faster than I could ascend its downhills.‬ Angelos Michalopoulos
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It`s not darkness that turns off the lights in your life, it`s your sadness that does it. Angelos Michalopoulos
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As long as you create, you are being created. Angelos Michalopoulos
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I want to become the favorite song of my own uprising. I want to see the most forgotten, unused part of my soul the one which for years I kept closed out of spite, find the courage to go up to my mind and start writing liberation slogans across its highest fences. Angelos Michalopoulos
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Whenever man fights with somebody else he is fighting with his own truth at the same time Angelos Michalopoulos
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No matter how many hours you keep undressing yourself you will never be able to take all your clothes off until you first manage to love your nakedness. Angelos Michalopoulos