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4.5 / 5The ending was the home run. Made up for a sagging middle. This has been the most feel-good Auster novel so far. As ever, the language and mood of his writing is such that it does not do any literary- linguistic gymnastics, but glides along sm ...more "
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""one by one, each element is there, but the whole is lacking, the parts don't cohere, and I do no more than search for the remnants of a day that doesn't fully exist."" — Jun 23, 2015 09:47PM
""one by one, each element is there, but the whole is lacking, the parts don't cohere, and I do no more than search for the remnants of a day that doesn't fully exist."" — Jun 23, 2015 09:47PM
“The difference between the present and the past is that the conscious present is an awareness of the past in a way and to an extent which the past’s awareness of itself cannot show.”
― Tradition and the Individual Talent: An Essay
― Tradition and the Individual Talent: An Essay
“Today at Nariman Point the tall buildings crowd one another. But when I was young and in love with a grey-eyed man it was a marshy waste. We used to walk aimlessly along the quiet Panday Road or cross the Cuffe Parade to walk towards the sun. We did not have a place to rest. But in the glow of those evening suns, we felt that we were Gods who had lost their way and had strayed into an unkind planet..”
― My Story
― My Story
“It was her religion to make the best of everything.”
― Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft
― Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft
“A pen is a furious weapon. But it needs a rage of will.”
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“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
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