"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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Source : Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.91, W. W. Norton & Company

Nicole Krauss

“Your website is the window of your business. Keep it fresh, keep it exciting.”
“I'm Irish and very proud of being Irish, but as an actor, your extraction should be secondary, really. You should be able to embody whatever character it is, wherever the character comes from. That's always been important, for me. I'm an actor who's Irish, not an Irish actor.”
“This is the effect of panic, a natural effect, you could say that animal nature is like this, plant life would behave in exactly the same way, too, if it did not have all those roots to hold it in the ground, and how nice it would be to see the trees of the forest fleeing the flames.”
“But the vagrant owns the whole vast earth that ends only at the nonexistent horizon, and his empire is an intangible one, for his domination and enjoyment of it are things of the spirit.”
“How do you best move toward mastery? To put it simply, you practice diligently, but you practice primarily for the sake of the practice itself.”

Source : George Leonard (1991). “Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-term Fulfillment”, Plume Books
“We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents would respect them and take them seriously as people.”
“Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.”
“There is nothing more powerful than the made up mind.”

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