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Life Quotes by Nicole Krauss

59 Life quotes by Nicole Krauss

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Life feels intense when we are young and our emotions are easy to notice. As we age, feelings can fade, but love may stay bright like a summer memory. The path often deepens, becoming more complex, and we sometimes wrestle with anger and the need to forgive.

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...larger than life...I've never understood that expression. What's larger than life?

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In life we sit at the table and refuse to eat, and in death we are eternally hungry.

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If I had a camera,' I said, 'I'd take a picture of you every day. That way I'd remember how you looked…

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“Then she kissed him. Her kiss was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”

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The idea that we've outgrown ends up limiting us and we have to make a choice about what we're going to do…

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Life in general in my experience gets deeper and deeper, more and more profound, more and more complex, the older one gets.

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“Once upon a time a boy loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life…

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Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend…

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All my life I have arrived early only to find myself standing self-consciously on a corner, outside a door, in an empty…

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When you're younger, it's all theoretical. It's all potential. As you get older, it becomes actual, and your life gets filled with…

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“... I had the elated, otherworldly feeling I sometimes get entering the sphere of another's life, when for a moment changing my…

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I used to think that if I had a choice between writing well and living well, I would choose the former. But…

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I think a lot of the questions - questioning reality and the self and the desire to change, to me are always…

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My first novel, 'Man Walks Into a Room,' is about a man who's lost his memory and has to start a second…

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“The singular power of literature lies not in its capacity for accurate representation of mass commonalities, but its ability to illuminate the…

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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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“From then on, I was terrified that I or one of my parents were going to die. My mother worried me the…

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“My mother was the force around which our world turned. Unlike our father, who spent his life in the clouds, my mother…

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Now that mine is almost over, I can say that the one thing that struck me most about life is the capacity…

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“. . . to survive the dark and often terrifying passage of my life I came to believe certain thing about myself…

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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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“The more I've learned in my life, the more acutely I've felt my hunger and blindness, and at the same time the…

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“I want to say somewhere: I've tried to be forgiving. And yet. There were times in my life, whole years, when anger…

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“Sometimes I forget that the world is not on the same schedule as I. That everything is not dying, or that if…

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“HOW ANGELS SLEEP. Unsoundly. They toss and turn, trying to understand the mystery of the living. They know so little about what…

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“He went on for some time while I sat listening in silence because I knew he was right, and like two people…

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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…

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“But then a foreboding thought cast a shadow over the rest, blunt and unadorned, and it was simply this: that for most…

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“The idea of being weighed down made me uneasy, as if I lived on the surface of a frozen lake and each…

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“...I continued to sit there hour after hour watching the unrelenting rain slosh against the glass, thinking of our life together, Lotte's…

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“It wasn't always like this. There was a time when I imagined my life could happen in another way. It's true that…

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“If I had a camera," I said, "I'd take a picture of you every day. That way I'd remember how you looked…

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There was no one to call me to bed, no one to demand that the rhythms of my life operate in a…

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And so he did the hardest thing he’d ever done in his life: he picked up his hat and walked away.

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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…

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“Put even a fool in front of the window and you'll get a Spinoza; in the end life makes window watchers of…

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...we take comfort in the symmetries we find in life because they suggest a design where there is none.

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I like to think the world wasn't ready for me, but maybe the truth is that I wasn't ready for the world.…

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Sometimes I forget that the world is not on the same schedule as I. That everything is not dying, or that if…

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I want to say somewhere: I've tried to be forgiving. And yet. There were times in my life, whole years, when anger…

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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…

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

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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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“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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