Real love

Real love, she says, is when you get as much pleasure from giving pleasure as you do from receiving it.

Paul Auster
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Poetry Vs Justice

From poetry to justice, then. Poetic justice, if you will. For the sad fact remains: there is far more poetry in the world than justice.

Paul Auster
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Power is the only constant

Bombastic pronouncements, wild generalizations, bitter declarations about the corruption of all governments - past, present and future; left, right and center - and how our so-called civilization was no more than a thin screen masking a never-ending assault of barbarism and cruelty. Human beings were animals, he said, and soft-minded aesthetes like myself were no better than children, diverting ourselves with hairsplitting philosophies of art and literature to avoid confronting the essential truth of the world. Power was the only constant, and the law of life was kill or be killed, either dominate or fall victim to the savagery of monsters.

Paul Auster
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Vanity

I was also fascinated by this peculiar, unreadable person, and the fact that he seemed genuinely glad to have stumbled into me stoked the fires of my vanity - than invisible cauldron of self-regard and ambition that simmers and burns in each one of us.

Paul Auster
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War

Never underestimate the importance of war. War is the purest, most vivid expression of the human soul.

Paul Auster
Invisible