Paul Auster Quotes About Boundaries

Quotes about: Boundaries

• We exist for ourselves, perhaps, and at times we even have a glimmer of who we are, but in the end we can never be sure, and as our lives go on, we become more and more opaque to ourselves, more and more aware of our own incoherence. No one can cross the boundary into another – for the simple reason that no one can gain access to himself.

  Paul Auster

  Simple, Goes On, Opaque

  Paul Auster (2008). “The New York Trilogy”, p.249, Faber & Faber

• We are left with nothing but death, the irreducible fact of our own mortality. Death after a long illness we can accept with resignation. Even accidental death we can ascribe to fate. But for a man to die of no apparent cause, for a man to die simply because he is a man, brings us so close to the invisible boundary between life and death that we no longer know which side we are on. Life becomes death, and it is as if this death has owned this life all along. Death without warning. Which is to say: life stops. And it can stop at any moment.

  Paul Auster

  Fate, Men, Long

  Paul Auster (2012). “Winter Journal”, p.182, Macmillan

• No one can cross the boundary into another -- for the simple reason that no one can gain access to himself

  Paul Auster

  Simple, Opaque, Gains

  Paul Auster (2008). “The New York Trilogy”, p.249, Faber & Faber

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