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Been Quotes by Nicole Krauss
- If it weren't for her, there would never have been an empty space, or the need to fill it.
- The clarity was startling and Samson wondered whether he was imagining these moments. Not that they hadn't happened at all, but that they had been…
- She was gone, and all that was left was the space you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence. For a…
- And if the man who once upon a time had been a boy who promised he'd never fall in love with another girl as long…
- At the end, all that's left of you are your possessions. Perhaps that's why I've never been able to throw anything away. Perhaps that's why…
- Then he almost but didn't say the two sentence he'd been meaning to say for years: part of me is made of glass, and also,…
- Only now that my son was gone did I realize how much I'd been living for him. When I woke up in the morning it…
- What about you? Are you happiest and saddest right now that you've ever been?" "Of course I am." "Why?" "Because nothing makes me happier and…
- Except for when I was very little and thought that being an "engineer" meant he drove a train. Then I imagined him in the seat…
- When I was with Yoav, everything in me that had been sitting stood up. He had a way of looking at me with a kind…
- The oldest emotion in the world may be that of being moved; but to describe it-just to name it-must have been like trying to catch…
- To touch and feel each thing in the world, to know it by sight and by name, and then to know it with your eyes…
- The fact that you got a little happier today doesn't change the fact that you also became a little sadder. Every day you become a…
- Because you can get free of everything except the space where things have been
- It's one of those unforgettable moments that happen as a child, when you discover that all along the world has been betraying you.
More Been Quotes
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- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour