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  1. Paul Auster _ Leviathan

    Six days ago, a man blew himself up by the side of a road in northern Wisconsin.
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  2. Paul Auster _ Leviathan

    In fifteen years, Sachs traveled from one end of himself to the other, and by the time he came to that last place, I doubt he even knew who he was anymore. So much distance had been covered by then, it wouldn't have been possible for him to remember where he had begun.
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  3. Paul Auster _ Leviathan

    A book is a mysterious object, I said, and once it floats out into the world, anything can happen.
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  4. Paul Auster _ Leviathan

    İnsan bir kez kendine karşı olmaya başladı mı, başka herkesin de karşı olduğunu düşünür.
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  5. Paul Auster _ Leviathan

    I doubted that I would be able to sleep. There were too many things to digest, too many images churning in my mind, but the moment my head touched the pillow, I began to lose consciousness. I felt as if I'd been clubbed, as if my skull had been crushed by a stone. Some stories are too terrible, perhaps, and the only way to let them into you is to escape, to turn your back on them and steal off into the darkness."
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  6. Paul Auster _ Leviathan

    For the fact is that it takes a great deal of self-confidence for a person to poke fun at himself, and a person with that kind of self-confidence is rarely a fool or a bungler.
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  7. Paul Auster _ Leviathan

    Significa que no puedes vivir sin los demás -dije-. Cuando están ahí en carne y hueso, el mundo real es suficiente. Cuando estás solo, tienes que inventarte personajes, los necesitas para que te hagan compañia.
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  8. Paul Auster _ Leviathan

    Everything is connected to everything else, every story overlaps with every other story.
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  9. Paul Auster _ Leviathan

    I have always been a plodder, a person who anguishes and struggles over each sentence, and even on my best days I do no more than inch along, crawling on my belly like a man lost in the desert. The smallest word is surrounded by acres of silence for me, and even after I manage to get that word down on the page, it seems to sit there like a mirage, a speck of doubt glimmering in the sand."
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  10. Paul Auster _ Leviathan

    Every time Sachs posed for a picture, he was forced to impersonate himself, to play the game of pretending to be who he was. After a while, it must have had an effect on him. {…} They say that a camera can rob a person of his soul. In this case, I believe it was just the opposite. With this camera, I believe that Sachs's soul was gradually given back to him.
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  11. Paul Auster _ Leviathan

    Nadie puede decir de dónde proviene un libro, y menos que nadie la persona que lo escribe. Los libros nacen de la ignorancia , y si continúan viviendo después de escritos es sólo en la medidad en que no pueden entenderse."
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  12. Paul Auster _ Leviathan

    In fifteen years, Sachs traveled from one end of himself to the other, and by the time he came to that last place, I doubt he even knew who he was anymore. So much distance had been covered by then, it wouldn't have been possible for him to remember where he had begun."
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