The whole scene had an imaginary quality to it. I knew that it was real, but at the same time it was better than reality, more nearly a projection of what I wanted from reality than anything I had experienced before.

Paul Auster

Tag: life



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نحن جميعا نريد أن تحكى لنا قصص، ونحن نصغي إليها على نحو ما كنّا نصغي ونحن صغار، ونتصور القصص الحقيقية في إهاب الكلمات، ومن أجل القيام بهذا فإننا نضع أنفسنا موضع الشخص الموجود في القصة، متظاهرين بأن في وسعنا أن نفهمه لأننا نفهم أنفسنا، وتلك خديعة، فنحن في بعض الأوقات ندرك من نكون، ولكننا في النهاية لا نستطيع التيقن، ومع استمرار حياتنا فإننا نصبح أكثر غموضا بالنسبة إلى أنفسنا، ونغدو أكثر وعياً بعدم تماسكنا.
وما من شخص يمكنه أن يعبر الحاجز إلى آخر، وذلك لسبب بسيط هو أنّه ما من أحد يمكنه أن يصل إلى ذاته .

Paul Auster


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يعدّ الشهر وقتاً طويلاً ، وأكثر من الكفاية لكي يتداعى إنسان فيه .

Paul Auster


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Op die manier is de elektrische stoel uitgevonden. Uitgedokterd door Edison die de gevaren van de wisselstroom wilde tonen en zijn idee vervolgens verkocht aan de Sing-sing-gevangenis waarop het tot op de dag van vandaag wordt gebruikt. Heerlijk, vind je niet? Als de wereld niet zo prachtig was, zouden we allemaal nog cynici worden.

Paul Auster

Tag: electricity moon-palace auster maanpaleis sing-sing



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Toen hij de kluizenaar in de zachte aarde naast het beekje begroef, besefte hij dat alles mogelijk zou zijn voor hem op deze plek. Hij had voedsel en water; hij had een huis; hij had een nieuwe identiteit voor zichzelf gevonden, een nieuw en totaal onverwacht leven. Hij kon de ommekeer bijna niet vatten. Nog geen uur geleden had hij willen sterven. Nu beefde hij van geluk, niet in staat te stoppen met lachen toen hij de ene schop na de andere op het gezicht van de dode man wierp.

Paul Auster


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Do you know what happened the last time a nation listened to a bush?" Honey asks.
No one says a word.
"Its people wandered in the desert for forty years.

Paul Auster

Tag: humor



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I make no excuse for what happened. Drunkenness is never more than a symptom, not an absolute cause, and I realize that it would be wrong of me to try to defend myself. Nevertheless, there is at least the possibility of an explanation.

Paul Auster

Tag: excuses drunk drunkenness



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Yes. A language that will at last say what we have to say. For our words no longer correspond to the world. When things were whole, we felt confident that our words could express them. But little by little these things have broken apart, shattered, collapsed into chaos. And yet our words have remained the same. Hence, every time we try to speak of what we see, we speak falsely, distorting the very thing we are trying to represent. […] Consider a word that refers to a thing- “ umbrella”, for example. […] Not only is an umbrella a thing, it is a thing that performs a function. […] What happens when a thing no longer performs its function? […] the umbrella ceases to be an umbrella. It has changed into something else. The word, however, has remained the same. Therefore it can no longer express the thing.

Paul Auster

Tag: paul-auster new-york-trilogy umbrella



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... he had understood that memory was a place, a real place that one could visit, and that to spend a few moments among the dead was not necessarily bad for you, that it could in fact be a source of great comfort and happiness.

Paul Auster


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... love was not a quantifiable substance. There was always more of it somewhere, and even after one love had been lost, it was by no means impossible to find another.

Paul Auster


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