"There is a fallacy that the powerful emotion……" — Nicole Krauss
"There is a fallacy that the powerful emotion of youth mellows with time. Not true. One learns to control and suppress it. But it doesn't lessen. It simply hides and concentrates itself in more discreet places. When one accidentally stumbles into one of these abysses, the pain is spectacular."
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Nicole Krauss
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160 Quotes by Nicole Krauss
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