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• I walked down my snow covered street. Out of habit I turned and checked for my footsteps. When I arrived at my building I looked for my name on the buzzers. And because I know that sometimes I see things that aren't there, after dinner I called Information to ask if I was listed.(25)

  Nicole Krauss

  Names, Snow, Buzzers

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

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• He llegado a la edad en que los moratones se forman por fallos internos más que por accidentes externos.

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  Age, Bruises, Aging

  "Great House". Book by Nicole Krauss, October 12, 2010.

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• She was gone, and all that was left was the space you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence. For a long time, it remained hollow. Years, maybe. And when at last it was filled again, you knew that the new love you felt for a woman would have been impossible without Alma. If it weren't for her, there would never have been an empty space, or the need to fill it.

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  Love You, Years, Space

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• ...our eyes locked in one of those looks that sometimes happen between strangers, when both wordlessly agree that reality contains sinkholes whose depths neither can ever hope to fathom.

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  Eye, Reality, Depth

  Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House”, p.136, Penguin UK

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

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  Phones, Embarrassed, Died

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.255, W. W. Norton & Company

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• All my life I have arrived early only to find myself standing self-consciously on a corner, outside a door, in an empty room, but the closer I get to death the earlier I arrive, the longer I am content to wait, perhaps to give myself the false sensation that there is too much time rather than not enough.

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  Empty Rooms, Doors, Self

  Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House: A Novel”, p.259, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When I was with Yoav, everything in me that had been sitting stood up. He had a way of looking at me with a kind of unabashed directness that made me shiver. It's something amazing to feel that for the first time someone is seeing you as you really are, not as they wish you, or you wish yourself, to be.

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  Wish, Sitting, Way

  Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House: A Novel”, p.134, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Except for when I was very little and thought that being an "engineer" meant he drove a train. Then I imagined him in the seat of an engine car the color of coal, a string of shiny passenger cars trailing behind. One day my father laughed and corrected me. Everything snapped into focus. 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, Father, Color

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• Our kiss was niticlimactic. It wasn't that the kiss was bad, but it was just a note of punctuation in our long conversation, a parenthetical remark made in order to assure each other of a deeply felt agreement, a mutual offer of companionship, which is so much more rare than sexual passion or even love.

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  Passion, Kissing, Agreement

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• No, what I felt was the torment of waiting, stuck between the end of one sentence and the beginning of the next which might or might not bring a hail storm, plane crash, poetic justice, or a miraculous reversal.

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  Justice, Waiting, Storm

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• Once upon a time there was a boy who lived in a house across the field from a girl who no longer exists. They made up a thousand games. She was Queen and he was King. In the autumn light, her hair shone like a crown. They collected the world in small handfuls. When the sky grew dark they parted with leaves in their hair.

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  Girl, Kings, Queens

  "The History of Love". Book by Nicole Krauss (p.9), 2005.

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• There is a fallacy that the powerful emotion of youth mellows with time. Not true. One learns to control and suppress it. But it doesn't lessen. It simply hides and concentrates itself in more discreet places. When one accidentally stumbles into one of these abysses, the pain is spectacular.

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  Pain, Powerful, Emotion

  Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House: A Novel”, p.55, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Herman slipped his hand into mine, and I thought, 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, and the next thing that happened was we kissed each other, and I found I knew how, and I felt happy and sad in equal parts, because I knew that I was falling in love, but it wasn't with him.

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  Love, Fall, Average

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.202, W. W. Norton & Company

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• At times I believed that the last page of my book and the last page of my life were one and the same, that when my book ended I'd end, a great wind would sweep through my rooms carrying the pages away, and when the air cleared of all those fluttering white sheets the room would be silent, the chair where I sat empty.

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  Book, Writing, White

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.9, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Now we'd known each other for two years, the side of my calf was touching his shins, and his stomach was against my ribs. He said, "I don't think it's end of world to be my girlfriend." I opened my mouth, but nothing came out. It took seven languages to make me; it would be nice if I could have spoken just one.

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  Girlfriend, Nice, Thinking

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• Aprendió a vivir con la verdad. No a aceptarla, sino a vivir con ella. Era como vivir con un elefante. Su habitación era diminuta, y cada mañana tenía que apretujarse alrededor de la verdad para llegar al baño. Para alcanzar el armario y coger un par de calzoncillos tenía que arrastrarse por debajo de la verdad, rezando para que no eligiera ese momento para sentarse en su cara. Por la noche, cuando cerraba los ojos, la sentía cernirse sobre él.

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  Mañana, Ojo, Noche

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• I smiled back, the importance of manners, my mother always said, is inversely related to how inclined one is to use them, or, in other words, sometimes politeness is all that stands between oneself and madness.

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  Mother, Use, Madness

  Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House: A Novel”, p.257, W. W. Norton & Company

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• ("Let's stand under a tree," she said. "Why?" "Because it's nicer." "Maybe you should sit on a chair, and I'll stand above you, like they always do with husbands and wives." "That's stupid." "Why's it stupid?" "Because we're not married." "Should we hold hands?" "We can't." "But why?" "Because, people will know." "Know what?" "About us." "So what if they know?" "It's better when it's a secret." "Why?" "So no one can take it from us.")

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  Husband, Stupid, Hands

  "La historia del amor". Libro de Nicole Krauss, 2005.

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• I try to make a point of being seen. Sometimes when I'm out, I'll buy a juice even when I'm not thirsty. If the store is crowded I'll even go so far as dropping change all over the floor, nickels and dimes skidding in every direction. All I want is not to die on a day I went unseen.

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  Trying, Unseen, Dimes

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• I’ve always liked the feeling of traveling light; there is something in me that wants to feel I could leave wherever I am, at any time, without any effort. The idea of being weighed down made me uneasy, as if I lived on the surface of a frozen lake and each new trapping of domestic life - a pot, a chair, a lamp - threatened to be the thing that sent me through the ice.

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  Lakes, Light, Ice

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• When you are young, you think it's going to be solved by love. But it never is. Being close -- as close as you can get -- to another person only makes clear that impassable distance between you.' If being in love only made people more lonely, why would everyone want it so much?' Because of the illusion. You fall in love, it's intoxicating, and for a little while you feel like you've actually become one with the other person. Merged souls and so on. You think you'll never be lonely again.

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  Lonely, Falling In Love, Distance

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• We search for patterns, you see, only to find where the patterns break. And it’s there, in that fissure, that we pitch our tents and wait.

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  Waiting, Patterns, Tents

  Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House: A Novel”, p.89, W. W. Norton & Company

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• To walk into a modern-day bookstore is a little bit like studying a single photograph out of the infinite number of photographs that cold be taken of the world: It offers the reader a frame.

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  Taken, Numbers, Bookstores

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• My first novel, 'Man Walks Into a Room,' is about a man who's lost his memory and has to start a second life. On one level, it's about how we create a coherent sense of self.

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  Memories, Men, Self

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• That powers my desire to write: the sense of how quickly everything on the surface of life can be cut away and you can suddenly be inside the most inner part of the most inner life of a person. What does it feel like there, and what are the regrets and sensations and longings, and what is the music of it?

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  Regret, Writing, Cutting

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