Nicole Krauss Quotes

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• Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.

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  Love, Cute, Romantic

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I know there is a moral to this story, but I don't know what it is.

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  Stories, Moral, Knows

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.39, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Even among the angels, there is the sadness of division.

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  Sadness, Angel, Division

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.185, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It's strange what the heart can do when the mind is giving the directions.

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  Heart, Giving, Mind

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• One of us had loved the other more perfectly, had watched the other more closely, and one of us listened and the other hadn’t, and one of us held on to the ambition of the one idea far longer than was reasonable, whereas the other, passing a garbage can one night, had casually thrown it away.

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  Love, Ambition, Night

  Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House: A Novel”, p.39, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Even now, all possible feelings do not yet exist, there are still those that lie beyond our capacity and our imagination. From time to time, when a piece of music no one has ever written or a painting no one has ever painted, or something else impossible to predict, fathom or yet describe takes place, a new feeling enters the world. And then, for the millionth time in the history of feeling, the heart surges and absorbs the impact.

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  Lying, Heart, Impact

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.107, W. W. Norton & Company

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• For her I changed pebbles into diamonds, shoes into mirrors, I changed glass into water, I gave her wings and pulled birds from her ears and in her pockets she found the feathers, I asked a pear to become a pineapple, a pineapple to become a lightbulb, a lightbulb to become the moon, and the moon to become a coin I flipped for her love.

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  Love, Wedding, Moon

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.230, W. W. Norton & Company

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• What about you? Are you happiest and saddest right now that you've ever been?" "Of course I am." "Why?" "Because nothing makes me happier and nothing makes me sadder than you.

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  Courses, Saddest, Right Now

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.91, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It's one of those unforgettable moments that happen as a child, when you discover that all along the world has been betraying you.

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  Children, World, Unforgettable Moments

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.93, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?

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  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company

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• To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.

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  Reading, Literature, Privilege

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• lonely people are always up in the middle of the night.

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  Lonely, Night, People

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.148, W. W. Norton & Company

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• What is literature, really? Boiled down to a single sentence, I'd say it's this: an endless conversation about what it means to be human. And to read literature is to engage in that conversation.

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  Healing, Mean, Literature

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• At the end, all that's left of you are your possessions. Perhaps that's why I've never been able to throw anything away. Perhaps that's why I hoarded the world: with the hope that when I died, the sum total of my things would suggest a life larger than the one I lived.

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  World, Able, History Of Love

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.165, W. W. Norton & Company

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• ...we take comfort in the symmetries we find in life because they suggest a design where there is none.

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  Design, Comfort, Symmetry

  Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House: A Novel”, p.82, W. W. Norton & Company

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• there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.

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  Love, Sad, Two

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.155, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Loneliness: there is no organ that can take it all.

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  Loneliness, Organs

  Nicole Krauss (2012). “The History of Love”, p.19, Penguin UK

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• I want to say somewhere: I've tried to be forgiving. And yet. There were times in my life, whole years, when anger got the better of me. Ugliness turned me inside out. There was a certain satisfaction in bitterness. I courted it. It was standing outside, and I invited it in.

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  Years, Forgiving, Want

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.18, W. W. Norton & Company

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• She struggled with her sadness, but tried to conceal it, to divide it into smaller and smaller parts and scatter these in places she thought no one would find them.

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  Sadness, Divides

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• All the times I have suddenly realized that my parents are dead, even now, it still surprises me, to exist in the world while that which made me has ceased to exist

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  Parent, World, Surprise

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company

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• ...larger than life...I've never understood that expression. What's larger than life?

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  Expression, Larger Than Life, Understood

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• ...after all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood?

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  Childhood, Domestic Violence, Survivor

  Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House”, p.212, Penguin UK

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• I like to think the world wasn't ready for me, but maybe the truth is that I wasn't ready for the world. I've always arrived too late for my life.

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  Life, Thinking, Too Late

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.84, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Perhaps that is what it means to be a father - to teach your child to live without you.

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  Children, Father, Mean

  "The History of Love". Book by Nicole Krauss, 2005.

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• Sometimes just to paint a head you have to give up the whole figure. To paint a leaf, you have to sacrifice the whole landscape. It might seem like you're limiting yourself at first, but after a while you realize that having a quarter of an inch of something you have a better chance of holding on to a certain feeling of the universe than if you pretended to be doing the whole sky.

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  Giving Up, Sacrifice, Sky

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