"When you are young, you think it's going……" — Nicole Krauss
"When you are young, you think it's going to be solved by love. But it never is. Being close -- as close as you can get -- to another person only makes clear that impassable distance between you.' If being in love only made people more lonely, why would everyone want it so much?' Because of the illusion. You fall in love, it's intoxicating, and for a little while you feel like you've actually become one with the other person. Merged souls and so on. You think you'll never be lonely again."
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160 Quotes by Nicole Krauss
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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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It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself.
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