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One Quotes by Paul Auster
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are…
- Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the nice sights in…
- It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get…
- You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an…
- Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot of things over…
- Translators are the shadow heroes of literature, the often forgotten instruments that make it possible for different cultures to talk to one another, who have…
- No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real.
- No one can cross the boundary into another -- for the simple reason that no one can gain access to himself
- Even you, who’ve lived inside your body for 64 years, would apparently be unable to recognize your foot in an isolated photograph of that foot,…
- While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them. And there was a period when I read…
- All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are.
- 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…
- One should never underestimate the power of books.
- Farts come from no one and nowhere; they are anonymous emanations that belong to the group as a whole, and even when every person in…
- No one was to blame for what happened, but that does not make it any less difficult to accept. It was all a matter of…
- We exist for ourselves, perhaps, and at times we even have a glimmer of who we are, but in the end we can never be…
- Yes, she is in love with him, and yes, in spite of his qualms and inner hesitations, he loves her back, however improbable that might…
- Every book is an image of solitude. It is a tangible object that one can pick up, put down, open, and close, and its words…
- Impossible, I realize, to enter another’s solitude. If it is true that we can ever come to know another human being, even to a small…
- Stories without endings can do nothing but go on forever, and to be caught in one means that you must die before your part in…
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle