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"Perhaps this is what really counts: to arrive at the core of human feeling, in spite of the evidence."
Auster, Paul. The Invention of Solitude (p. 26). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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"There is nothing more terrible, I learned, than having to face the objects of a dead man. Things are inert: they have meaning only in function of the life that makes use of them. When that life ends, the things change, even though they remain the same. They are there and yet not there: tangible ghosts, condemned to survive in a world they no longer belong to."
Auster, Paul. The Invention of Solitude (p. 8).
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"'All these voices raised in soliloquy, detailing their petty problems, create a universe of mutual deafness where each person, talking about himself, no longer has the time to listen to others.'"
Auster, Paul. The Invention of Solitude (p. xii). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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Auster, Paul. The Invention of Solitude (p. xii). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.





















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