Feelings Quotes by Nicole Krauss

12 Feelings quotes by Nicole Krauss

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Nicole Krauss frames feelings with literary elegance, each of the twelve quotes hinting at deeper layers beneath everyday experience. Her prose invites you to linger on the delicate texture of sentiment.

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When we went into the ocean, I watched his body as he dove into the waves, and it gave me a feeling…

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Sometimes I get the feeling that we're just a bunch of habits. The gestures we repeat over and over, they're just our…

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When at last I came upon the right book, the feeling was violent: it blew open a hole in me that made…

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In one's youth, one has tremendous access to one's feelings. And as one gets older, some of those feelings kind of drift…

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“Having begun to feel, people’s desire to feel grew. They wanted to feel more, feel deeper, despite how it sometimes hurt. People…

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“I had the most rare of feelings, the sense that the world, so consistently overwhelming and incomprehensible, in fact had an order,…

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You can't imagine how hard I am on myself. Nothing pummels me like my own doubts, the feeling of how far I…

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I feel really strongly about not wanting to overly guide the reader about what he or she should think. I really trust…

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Sometimes, waking early before the others, wandering the rooms wrapped in a blanket or drinking my tea in the empty kitchen, I…

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I’ve always liked the feeling of traveling light; there is something in me that wants to feel I could leave wherever I…

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Sometimes just to paint a head you have to give up the whole figure. To paint a leaf, you have to sacrifice…

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Even now, all possible feelings do not yet exist, there are still those that lie beyond our capacity and our imagination. From…

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She was gone, and all that was left was the space where you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence.

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“The air felt different in my lungs. The world no longer looked the same. You change and then you change again. You become a…

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“The first language humans had was gestures. There was nothing primitive about this language that flowed from people’s hands, nothing we say now that…

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Mom?" I said. She turned. "Can I talk to you about something?" "Of course, darling. Come here." I took a few steps into the…

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Obviously I've been reading Kafka for a long long time, since I was really young, and even before I ever read him I knew…

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“She's kept her love for him as alive as the summer they first met. In order to do this, she's turned life away. Sometimes…

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Sometimes no length of string is long enough to say the thing that needs to be said. In such cases all the string can…

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“Doesn’t part of the awe that fills us when we confront the unknown come from understanding that, should it at last flood into us…

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