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Nicole Krauss est une romancière américaine née le 18 août 1974 à New York.

✵ 18. août 1974
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Nicole Krauss: Citations en anglais

“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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Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Variante: Then she kissed him. Her kiss was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.
Source: The History of Love (2005), P. 11

“He died alone because he was too embarrassed to phone anyone.”

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Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

“The little boy I watched throwing pebbles into the empty fountain […] You could tell that he had too much wisdom for his age. Probably he believed that he wasn't made for this world. I wanted to say to him: If not you, who?”

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Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love (2005), P. 351

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

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Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

“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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Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

“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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Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

“And if the man who once upon a time had been a boy who promised he'd never fall in love with another girl as long as he lived kept his promise, it wasn't because he was stubborn or even loyal. He couldn't help it.”

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Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

“If I had a camera,' I said, 'I'd take a picture of you every day. That way I'd remember how you looked every single day of your life.”

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Nicole Krauss

“When I got older I decided I wanted to be a real writer. I tried to write about real things. I wanted to describe the world, because to live in an undescribed world was too lonely.”

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Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love (2005), P. 7

“We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it.”

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Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

“… An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's hand…”

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Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

“I was never a man of great ambition
I cried too easily
I didn't have a head for science
Words often failed me
While others prayed I only moved my lips”

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Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

“ONE THING I AM NEVER GOING TO DO WHEN I GROW UP
Is fall in love, drop out of college, learn to subsist on water and air, have a species named after me, and ruin my life.”

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Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

“Wittgenstein once wrote that when the eye sees something beautiful, the hand wants to draw it. I wish I could draw you.”

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Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

“… larger than life… I've never understood that expression. What's larger than life?”

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Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

“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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Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

“Then he almost but didn't say the two sentence he'd been meaning to say for years: part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you”

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“Sometimes I thought about nothing and sometimes I thought about my life. At least I made a living. What kind of living? A living. It wasn't easy. I found out how little is unbearable.”

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Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

“Every year, the memories I have of my father become more faint, unclear, and distant. once they were vivid and true, then they became like photographs, and now they are more like photographs of photographs.”

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Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

“He wondered if what he had taken for the richness of silence was really the poverty of never being heard […]. How could he have forgotten what he had always known: there is no match for the silence of God.”

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Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

“That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.”

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Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

“I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without.”

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Nicole Krauss livre Great House

Source: Great House

“Sometimes no length of string is long enough to say the thing that needs to be said. In such cases all the string can do, in whatever its form, is conduct a person's silence.”

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Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

“Only now that my son was gone did I realize how much I'd been living for him. When I woke up in the morning it was because he existed, and when I ordered food it was because he existed, and when I wrote my book it was because he existed to read it.”

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Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

“There are times when the kindness of strangers only makes things worse because one realizes how badly one is in need of kindness and that the only source is a stranger.”

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Nicole Krauss livre Great House

Source: Great House

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