Andrei Makine Quotes

#1. The though revives in him the oldest memory of his life. A child sees a door closing: without knowing who it is that has just left, he senses it is someone he loves with all his tiny, still mute being.

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#2. Their own life together was like a subtle watercolor sketch, invisible to other people. They gave the world what it required of them and for the rest of the time were content to be forgotten.

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#3. Love is in essence subversive.

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#4. Once again, without explaining anything, they understood that they must leave. Go away before this world woke up and continued with a life from which they were forever excluded.

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#5. The fatal mistake we make is looking for a paradise that endures ... This obsession with what lasts causes us to overlook many a fleeting paradise.

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#6. Their life will be made of the same stuff as this spring afternoon.

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#7. I have just awoken, having dreamed of music. The final chord fades away within me while I try to focus on individuals amid the living, breathing mass packed into this vast waiting room, in this mixture of sleep and weariness.

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#8. Historians rewrite the truth every day. What interests us is the truth that gets the reader to reach for his wallet

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#9. They did not speak, surprised to see how simple, almost poor, happiness could be, yes, materially poor and yet so abundant.

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#10. Men can be pitiless towards a woman whose body has eluded them, particularly if this is thanks to their own cowardice.

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#11. This sacrifice, which saved his life, reminded him again that the evil of this world could be put to rout by the will of a single human being.

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#12. She studies to be equal in a world that is no longer surprised at anything

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#13. In war the most testing moments are those of peace , for a dead man lying in the grass makes the living see the world as it would be, but for their folly.

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#14. The life these words speak of is not worth the ink they are written in ... He now knows that the only words worth writing down arise when language is impossible.

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#15. The loudspeaker on the wall crackles, hisses, and suddenly announces, in astonishingly soothing tones, that a train is going to be delayed. An ocean swell of sighs ripples through the waiting room.

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#16. He had already come to see human lives as one single communal life and it was perhaps this perception that gave him hope.

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#17. Volsky once more had the feeling that the bond between them was indifferent to the demise of bodies.

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#18. ( ... ) the translator of prose is the slave of the author and the translator of poetry is his rival.

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#19. He should have told Vlad that in the old days a collection of poems could change your life, but a single poem could also cost the life of its author.

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#20. An exile's only country is his country's literature.

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