"But loneliness, true loneliness, is impossible to accustom……" — Nicole Krauss
"But loneliness, true loneliness, is impossible to accustom oneself to, and while I was still young I thought of my situation as somehow temporary, and did not stop hoping and imagining that I would meet someone and fall in love...Yes, there was a time before I closed myself off to others."
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Nicole Krauss
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160 Quotes by Nicole Krauss
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The misery of other people is only an abstraction something that can be sympathized with only by drawing from one's…
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All I want is not to die on a day when I went unseen.
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Sometimes I forget that the world is not on the same schedule as I. That everything is not dying, or…
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The more freedom I allow myself as a writer to wander, become lost and go into uncertain territory - and…
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Getting a book published made me feel a little bit sad... I felt driven by the need to write a…
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David Grossman may be the most gifted writer I've ever read. [To the End of the Land is] powerful, shattering,…
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If it weren't for her, there would never have been an empty space, or the need to fill it.
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To walk into a modern-day bookstore is a little bit like studying a single photograph out of the infinite number…
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What is literature, really? Boiled down to a single sentence, I'd say it's this: an endless conversation about what it…
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And he isn't crying for her, not for his grandma, he's crying for himself: that he: too, is going to…
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The clarity was startling and Samson wondered whether he was imagining these moments. Not that they hadn't happened at all,…
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It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself.
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More Accustom Quotes
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Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
— Teresa of Avila
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.
— John Berger
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Accustom yourself to tireless activity.
— Alexander Suvorov
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Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation - speak, act, work in peace, as if you…
— Francois Fenelon
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Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.
— Samuel Johnson
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The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science; and in like sort…
— Alexander Pope
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We should think more about it, and accustom ourselves to the thought of death. We can't allow the fear of…
— Dmitri Shostakovich
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I could never quite accustom myself to absinthe, but it suits my style so well
— Oscar Wilde
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Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the…
— Marcus Aurelius
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We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to…
— Blaise Pascal
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Why do men learn through pain and suffering, and not through pleasure and happiness? Very simply, because pleasure and happiness…
— Seraphim Rose
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