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Us Quotes by Paul Auster
- Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father…
- Our lives don't really belong to us, you see -- they belong to the world, and in spite of our efforts to make sense of…
- 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…
- All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are.
- Every life is inexplicable, I kept telling myself. No matter how many facts are told, no matter how many details are given, the essential thing…
- There is nothing more terrible, I learned, than having to face the objects of a dead man. Things are inert: that have meaning only in…
- Our lives carry us along in ways we cannot control, and almost nothing stays with us. It dies when we do, and death is something…
- Bodies count, of course - they count more than we're willing to admit - but we don't fall in love with bodies, we fall in…
- Then, without any warning, we both straightened up, turned towards each other, and began to kiss. After that, it is difficult for me to speak…
- We are left with nothing but death, the irreducible fact of our own mortality. Death after a long illness we can accept with resignation. Even…
- We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to…
- Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people - more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding.…
More Us Quotes
- Sometimes I think that life would be how much easier if we don't have heart. Because it is the heart which puts… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- It is the people closest to us, that are capable of hurting us most. — Nishan Panwar
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
- Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few:… — Pope Francis
- Life may burn us, it's how we rise out of the ashes that define our character. — Nishan Panwar
- Dreams are what keep us going when real life lets us down. — Nishan Panwar