Paul Auster's quotes (sethmessenger.fr - Some short news to get away from it all).

#1818
Simply wander in the desert does not imply the existence of the promised land.

Paul Auster
(Source inconnue)

#1819
When words come out, fly in the air, living a moment and die, it's called talk.

Paul Auster
(Cité de verre)

#1820
It's complicated to ask for forgiveness, it's a delicate gesture, in balance between stiffness proud and tearful contribution and if we can't open up to each other in all honesty, the apologies seem false and hollow.

Paul Auster
(Brooklyn Follies)

#1821
We are all strangers to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it's only because we live inside the gaze of others.

Paul Auster
(Chronique d'hiver)

#1822
The French become surly kids as soon as they are too many in a small space, and rather than trying to impose an order on the situation collectively, everything suddenly turns everyone for themselves.

Paul Auster
(Chronique d'hiver)

#1823
It is of old things that miss you, even if you have no desire to see back in those old days.

Paul Auster
(Chronique d'hiver)

#1824
Physical pleasures and physical pain. Firstly and especially sexual pleasures, but also to eat and drink, stay naked in a hot tub, to scrape a place that itch, sneeze and fart, to spend an extra hour in bed, lift the face toward the Sun by a soft late afternoon of Spring or early summer and feel the heat settle on your skin.

Paul Auster
(Chronique d'hiver)

#1825
Discretion has its merits, but too high-dose it can be fatal.

Paul Auster
(La chambre dérobée)

#1826
If we lie, do so as to put herself in danger.

Paul Auster
(Moon Palace)

#1827
If the world was not so beautiful, could all become cynical.

Paul Auster
(Moon Palace)

#1828
The true purpose of art is not to create beautiful objects: this is a method of thinking, a way of understanding the universe and find his place.

Paul Auster
(Moon Palace)

#1829
Every man is the author of his own life.

Paul Auster
(Moon Palace)

#1830
Each breath of life prepares us to better enjoy our own end.

Paul Auster
(Moon Palace)

#1831
Good things happen when we renounce hope them; Conversely, too much to hope, prevent them from happening.

Paul Auster
(Moon Palace)

#1832
Progress is a mousetrap, bigger, more effective each month: soon, we will be able to kill all the mice with one shot.

Paul Auster
(Moon Palace)

#1833
The only future that belongs to us ever is the present we are living.

Paul Auster
(Moon Palace)

#1834
Each deprivation has hidden benefits and as soon as we learn to do without a few amenities, one learns to hunting for good of his thoughts.

Paul Auster
(Moon Palace)

#1835
The inside and the outside cannot be separated without causing great damage to the truth.

Paul Auster
(Moon Palace)

#1836
The mind cannot defeat the material, because as soon as it is requested excessively, it turns out he also made of matter.

Paul Auster
(Moon Palace)

#1837
A conversation like an exchange of bullets: a good partner sent you the ball straight into the glove, so that it is almost impossible to Miss; When it's for him to receive, he catches everything that happens on his side.

Paul Auster
(Moon Palace)

#1838
Walking in a crowd means never go faster than others, never drag the leg, never do anything which may disturb the allure of the human flood.

Paul Auster
(Moon Palace)

#1839
A book is the only place in the world where strangers can meet intimately.

Paul Auster
(L’Express - 2 Mai 2002)

#1840
Having a child, means to belong to something bigger than yourself.

Paul Auster
(Moon Palace)

#1841
There is no coincidences, the use of this word is the prerogative of the ignorant.

Paul Auster
(Moon Palace)

#1842
Everyone deserves to be nice: anyone, whatever it is.

Paul Auster
(Moon Palace)

#1843
In memory, things do not always have the same weight. A few days can count more than hundred years.

Paul Auster
(Entretien avec Pierre Assouline - Avril 1994)

#1844
In a good detective novel nothing is lost, it does not phrase or Word that are not significant.

Paul Auster
(Cité de verre)

#1845
The key to our salvation: is to become the masters of the words we speak, to force the language to respond to our needs.

Paul Auster
(Cité de verre)

#1846
In general lives seem fired abruptly from one thing to another, shoving, bumping and squirm.

Paul Auster
(La Chambre dérobée)

#1847
Writing is a solitary occupation that consumes your life. In a sense, a writer has no life of its own. Even when it is there it is not really there.

Paul Auster
(Revenants)

#1848
Something happens, and then the same thing continues to happen forever.

Paul Auster
(Revenants)

#1849
It is ultimately all it wants of a book – being entertained.

Paul Auster
(Cité de verre)

#1850
If interested in words, to invest in what is written, believe in the power of books - that overwhelms everything else, and compared our own lives is getting considerably smaller.

Paul Auster
(La Chambre dérobée)

#1851
Comes a point where a man may choose death rather than life.

Paul Auster
(La Chambre dérobée)

#1852
Lost chances are as much a part of life that entered opportunities, and a story can dwell on what could have happened.

Paul Auster
(Revenants)

#1853
Writing a novel, is a story. These are people that you live that set the tone of the novel, the color of the words coming out of the pen.

Paul Auster
(Entretien avec Pierre Assouline - Avril 1994)

#1854
Sexual desire can also be the desire to kill.

Paul Auster
(La Chambre dérobée)

#1855
As soon as you throw his life to the winds, we discover things that you had never suspected, that you can't learn in no other circumstance.

Paul Auster
(Moon Palace)

#1856
Silence obliterates everything.

Paul Auster
(Moon Palace)

#1857
We get what we desire that in not wanting to.

Paul Auster
(Moon Palace)

#1858
There's hope for everyone, it's what makes the universe.

Paul Auster
(Moon Palace)

#1859
The universe enters within us by the eyes, but we understand anything as long as it is not down in our mouth.

Paul Auster
(Moon Palace)

#1860
The large-scale destruction is God's business, men do not have the right to interfere.

Paul Auster
(Moon Palace)

#1861
Love is the only force that can stop a man down.

Paul Auster
(Moon Palace)

#1862
We don't find that turning to what one is not.

Paul Auster
(Moon Palace)

#1863
The reality is a yo-yo, change is the only constant.

Paul Auster
(Moon Palace)

#1864
Imagination, is the art of giving life to what does not exist, to persuade others to accept a world that isn't really there.

Paul Auster
(Moon Palace)

#1865
No one is allowed to die more than once.

Paul Auster
(Moon Palace)

#1866
If we're not ready to do anything, we're ready for anything.

Paul Auster
(Moon Palace)

#1867
The failure does not affect the sincerity of the attempt.

Paul Auster
(Moon Palace)

#1868
A library is a sanctuary of pure thought.

Paul Auster
(Moon Palace)

#1869
We are all victims of something, not even to be alive.

Paul Auster
(Moon Palace)

#1870
Once you're a parent, there are assignments that cannot Dodge, obligations that must be met, regardless of the price.

Paul Auster
(Léviathan)

#1871
Hostility can be a dimension of love.

Paul Auster
(Léviathan)

#1872
Guilt is a powerful sting.

Paul Auster
(Léviathan)

#1873
Each is alone and we have therefore no recourse in our next.

Paul Auster
(Léviathan)

#1874
Nothing is without meaning, everything in this world is connected to the rest.

Paul Auster
(Léviathan)

#1875
The real is always more than we can imagine. If untrammelled that we felt were our inventions, they never reach the level of the incessant and unpredictable vomit of the real world.

Paul Auster
(Léviathan)

#1876
Democracy does not of itself. You have to fight for it every day, otherwise we risk losing. The only weapon we have is the law.

Paul Auster
(Léviathan)

#1877
Everyone is critical literary, of our days. If we don't like a book, we threaten the author. There is a certain logic in this way to see. To pay this bastard for what he's done to you.

Paul Auster
(Léviathan)

#1878
A life belongs to the one who lives it; life itself claim the living; Live is to let him live.

Paul Auster
(L’Invention de la solitude)

#1879
Neglecting children, is to destroy ourselves. We exist in the present as we put our faith in the future.

Paul Auster
(Léviathan)

#1880
There is a world of difference between doing something and thinking about. Without this distinction, life would be impossible.

Paul Auster
(Léviathan)

#1881
You can't put your feet on the ground as long as it has not touched the sky.

Paul Auster
(Moon Palace)

#1882
There are strong spirits and victims: we lead or it is carried out.

Paul Auster
(Moon Palace)

#1883
The Sun is the past, the Earth is the present and the Moon is the future.

Paul Auster
(Moon Palace)

#1884
Here exists only in function from there: If we do not look at the top, we will never know what is at the bottom.

Paul Auster
(Moon Palace)

#1885
A life touches another life, which affects a third and very fast sequences are countless, impossible to calculate.

Paul Auster
(La Chambre dérobée)

#1886
History is not in words, she is in the fight.

Paul Auster
(La Chambre dérobée)

#1887
Drunkenness is never just a symptom, not an absolute cause.

Paul Auster
(La Chambre dérobée)

#1888
Even a child knows that the truth can be used for deceptive purposes.

Paul Auster
(La Chambre dérobée)

#1889
The sky in Paris has its own laws which operate independently of the city below.

Paul Auster
(La Chambre dérobée)

#1890
As in any initiation, it is in indeed survive that is the triumph.

Paul Auster
(La Chambre dérobée)

#1891
Writers know never judge their work.

Paul Auster
(La chambre dérobée)

#1892
We get to a certain point in life, and then it's too late to change.

Paul Auster
(La Chambre dérobée)

#1893
Real weddings are always foolish.

Paul Auster
(La chambre dérobée)

#1894
The most valuable things are lighter than air.

Paul Auster
(Source inconnue)

#1895
A woman's voice who speaks, who tells stories of life and death, has the power to give life.

Paul Auster
(L'Invention de la solitude)

#1896
The books are born of ignorance, and if they continue to live after having been written, is that insofar as we can understand.

Paul Auster
(Léviathan)

#1897
A book is a mysterious object and once it took off, anything can happen.

Paul Auster
(Léviathan)

#1898
Marriage: a marsh, an auto-mystification exercise that lasts a lifetime.

Paul Auster
(Léviathan)

#1899
A good marriage can withstand any outside pressure, an unhappy marriage breaks.

Paul Auster
(Léviathan)

#1900
Once we tasted the future can't go back.

Paul Auster
(Moon Palace)

#1901
Lives have no meaning. Someone lives, then dies, and what happens between the two has no sense.

Paul Auster
(La chambre dérobée)

#1902
By their desire, two people can create something more powerful than what each can create alone.

Paul Auster
(La Chambre dérobée)

#1903
Each has only a certain number of words in him.

Paul Auster
(Cité de verre)

#1904
Most people do not pay attention. They see words like rocks and large impossible to move objects without life, nomads who never change.

Paul Auster
(Cité de verre)

#1905
I can't say that I'll be tomorrow. Every day is new and every day I am reborn.

Paul Auster
(Cité de verre)

#1906
Our lives take us in ways that we cannot control, and almost nothing is.

Paul Auster
(La Chambre dérobée)

#1907
A lie can never be erased. Even the truth is not enough.

Paul Auster
(Cité de verre)

#1908
The stories only happen to those who are able to tell. Similarly, the experiences are those who can live.

Paul Auster
(La chambre dérobée)

#1909
What drives some authors to hide behind a pseudonym; What is a writer, finally, has a real existence?

Paul Auster
(La chambre dérobée)

#1910
Only the darkness has the power to open to the world the heart of a man.

Paul Auster
(La Chambre dérobée)

#1911
Everyone knows that the stories are imaginary. We know that they are not true even when they tell us more important than those truths that we can find anywhere else.

Paul Auster
(La Chambre dérobée)

#1912
It's what you learn in the end life: how she is strange.

Paul Auster
(La chambre dérobée)

#1913
My mailbox was my hiding place. She connected me to the rest of the world and had the power to create events in the magic of its obscurity.

Paul Auster
(La Chambre dérobée)

#1914
Nothing is real except chance.

Paul Auster
(Cité de verre)

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