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Quotes About Awareness

Would it not be better to learn the truth once and for all instead of living in a state of perpetual uncertainty?
~ Paul Auster
A here exists only in relation to a there, not the other way around. There's this only because there's that; if we don't look up, we'll never know what's down. Think of it, boy. We find ourselves only by looking what we're not. You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.
~ Paul Auster
He who lives for an encounter with the unseen becomes the instrument of the seen.
~ Paul Auster
Toute la scène avait quelque chose d'imaginaire. J'étais conscient qu'elle était réelle, mais en même temps c'était mieux que la réalité, plus proche d'une projection de ce que j'attendais de la réalité que tout ce qui m'étais arrivé auparavant. Avec le temps, je commençai à remarquer que les bonnes choses m'arrivaient que lorsque j'avais renoncé à les espérer.
~ Paul Auster
He already understand that the world consisted of two realms, the visible and the invisible, and that the things he couldn't see were often more real than the things he could.
~ Paul Auster
If there is nothing, then, but silence, is it not presumptuous of me to speak? And yet, if there had been anything more than silence, would I have felt the need to speak in the first place?
~ Paul Auster
And I am nothing if not a stupid, stupid man.
~ Paul Auster
Our hearts know what is in them, even if our mouths remain silent. And the world will know what it is, even when nothing remains in our hearts.
~ Paul Auster
Conoce a tu enemigo y no te acerques a él
~ Paul Auster
Si mantienes los ojos abiertos, siempre estarás perdido
~ Paul Auster
La primera vez que entendía que la memoria es un lugar, un sitio de verdad al que se podía ir
~ Paul Auster
No, there is nothing people will not do, and the sooner you learn that, the better off you will be.
~ Paul Auster
Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them, someone once said. In the same way, perhaps, experiences present themselves only to those who are able to have them.
~ Paul Auster
Non parlo tanto del desiderio, quanto della consapevolezza, della scoperta che due persone, tramite il desiderio, possono creare una realtà più potente di quella che ciascuna potrebbe creare da sola.
~ Paul Auster
the closest man can come to the feeling of eternity is by living in the present
~ Paul Auster
Pour employer une expression qui m'a toujours plu, j'ai découvert que je vivais des jours empruntés.
~ Paul Auster
Whatever you see has the potential to wound you, to make you less than you are, as if merely by seeing a thing some part of yourself were taken away from you.
~ Paul Auster
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?
~ Paul Auster
una persona nerviosa y refunfuñona, demasiado angustiada por las minucias de la vida cotidiana para entender que la vida se te podía escapar antes de empezar a vivirla,
~ Paul Auster
If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.
~ Paul Auster
Yoksullara, yokluk içindekilere, toplum düzeninin ma?durlar?na ac?yordum ve öyle bir arabaya binmek, yaln?zca kendi ad?ma de?il, bu tür ?eylerin olmas?na f?rsat veren bir dünyada ya?ad???m için utanç veriyordu bana." Syf 19
~ Paul Auster
Nikad nije umeo da bude tamo gde se nalazio. Jer ?itavog svog života, bio je negde drugde, izme?u tu i tamo. Ali nikada sasvim tu. I nikada sasvim tamo.
~ Paul Auster
More often than not, what stirs the imagination is best kept in the imagination, and Gwyn is aware of that, she is wise enough to know that the distance between thought and deed can be enormous, a gulf as large as the world itself.
~ Paul Auster
Follow the music of your steps, and when the lights go out Don't whistle—sing.
~ Paul Auster