"He spoke of human solitude, about the intrinsic……" — Nicole Krauss
"He spoke of human solitude, about the intrinsic loneliness of a sophisticated mind, one that is capable of reason and poetry but which grasps at straws when it comes to understanding another, a mind aware of the impossibility of absolute understanding. The difficulty of having a mind that understands that it will always be misunderstood."
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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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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
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No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath…
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point…
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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas…
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
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Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
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