Quotes from Paul Auster

Em outras palavras: medo de morrer, o que em última análise não é outra coisa que não medo de viver

Our lives are determined by manifold contingencies,' I said, trying to be as succinct as possible, 'and every day we struggle against these shocks and accidents in order to keep our balance.

Cuando a un hombre la vida le resulta tolerable sólo si permanece en la superficie de sí mismo, es natural que se sienta satisfecho obteniendo esa misma superficie de los demás

el arte era una actividad humana que se apoyaba en los sentidos para llegar al alma,

We had to destroy the village in order to save it.

No es que no pensara más en él, sino que parecía interesarse más por su recuerdo que por continuar en contacto

The walking wounded, opening their veins and bleeding in public.

I'm looking for oblivion, Doctor, not death. The drugs will put me to sleep, and as long as I'm unconscious, I won't have to think about what I'm doing. I'll be there, but I won't be there, and to the degree that I'm not there, I'll be protected.

I was the best thing that could have happened to him, it was the worst thing that could have happened to him.

But the Can Man is still touched in the head, and on nights when the world closes in on him, he still gets down on his hands and knees and howls at the moon.

Nimeni nu poate spune ce anume d? na?tere unei c?rti, ?i cu atât mai pu?in cel care o scrie. C?r?ile se nasc din ignoran?? iar dac? tr?iesc ?i dup? ce au fost scrise, asta se întâmpl? numai ?i numai pentru c? nu pot fi în?elese.

For what does it mean to look at something, a real object in the real world, an animal, for example, and say that it is something other than what it is? It is to say that each thing leads a double life, at once in the world and in our minds, and that to deny either one of these lives is to kill the thing in both its lives at once.

Angesichts der Schwierigkeiten, vor die uns die reale Welt stellte, war es wohl ganz verständlich, daß wir ihr so oft es ging den Rücken kehrten.

Things happen in their own sweet time.

a lire belongs only to the person who lives it; life itself will claim the living; to live is to let live.

One would have to be nearly unconscious not to see, or at least not to feel, that the house was no longer the same. "Habit", as one of Beckett's characters says, "it's a great deadener", And if the mind is unable to respond to the physical evidence, what will it do when confronted with the emotional evidence?

Bibliotheken befinden sich schließlich außerhalb der realen Welt. Es sind abgeschiedene Orte, Zufluchtsstätten des reinen Denkens. Auf diese Weise kann ich für den Rest meines Lebens auf dem Mond weiterleben.

Jeder hat Freundlichkeit verdient, sagte ich. Egal wer.

Hikayeler ancak onlar? anlatmas?n? bilenlerin ba??na gelirler.

one meets with failure too often to exult in the occasional success.

What to do when the world was on fire and you didn't have the equipment to put out the flames, when the fire was in you as much as it was around you, and no matter what you did or did not do, your actions would change nothing?

Bu adam hiç kimse de?ilse mutlaka Fanshawe'dur.

Onunla mücadele etmek demek, onu kabul etmi? olmak demek, hay?r demeyi istemek çoktan evet demek anlam?na geliyor.

La petite mort' and 'la grande mort' within ten seconds of each other—coming and going in the space of three short breaths.