Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies
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Nothing lasts, you see, not even the thoughts inside you. And you mustn't waste your time looking for them. Once a thing is gone, that is the end of it.
Paul Auster, The Invention of Solitude
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Anything was possible, and just because things happened in one way didn't mean they couldn't happen in another.
Paul Auster, 4 3 2 1
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Nothing lasts, you see, not even the thoughts inside you. And you mustn't waste your time looking for them. Once a thing is gone, that is the end of it.
Paul Auster, The Invention of Solitude
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The violent rose
Of ruined and transcendent lovers.
— René Char, Selected Poems of René Char, transl by Paul Auster, (1992)
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Nothing lasts, you see, not even the thoughts inside you. And you mustn't waste your time looking for them. Once a thing is gone, that is the end of it.
Paul Auster, The Invention of Solitude
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Nothing lasts, you see, not even the thoughts inside you. And you mustn't waste your time looking for them. Once a thing is gone, that is the end of it.
Paul Auster, The Invention of Solitude
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Genelde yaşadığımız acıların altında, en sevdiğimiz insanların imzası vardır...
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“Ogni vita nasconde, e protegge, dentro di sé tutte le altre che non si sono realizzate, che sono rimaste solo potenziali. E cosí ogni individuo conserva al suo interno, come clandestini su una nave di notte, le ombre di tutte le altre persone che sarebbe potuto diventare.”
Paul Auster - 4321
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From Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy
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Nothing lasts, you see, not even the thoughts inside you. And you mustn't waste your time looking for them. Once a thing is gone, that is the end of it.
Paul Auster, The Invention of Solitude
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I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me in midair. That something is what I define as love. It is the one thing that can stop a man from falling, powerful enough to negate the laws of gravity.
Paul Auster, Moon Palace
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Loneliness kills... and chunk by chunk it eats up every part of you until your whole body is devoured. A person has no life without being connected to others, and if you’re lucky enough to be deeply connected to another person, so connected that the other person is as important to you as you are to yourself, then life becomes more than possible, it becomes good.
— Paul Auster, Baumgartner (Atlantic Monthly Press, November 7, 2023)
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Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.
Paul Auster
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