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21 " Wherever he was, I was with him now. I had given him my word to say nothing, and the longer I kept his secret, the less I belonged to myself. "
― Paul Auster , Leviathan
22 " I can't remember everything we talked about, but the beginning of that conversation is a lot clearer to me than the end. By the time we came to the last half hour or forty-five minutes, there was so much bourbon in my system that I was actually seeing double. This had never happened to me before, and I had no idea how to bring the world back into focus. Whenever I looked at Sachs, there were two of him. Blinking my eyes didn't help, and shaking my head only made me dizzy. Sachs had turned into a man with two heads and two mouths, and when I finally stood up to leave, I can remember how he caught me in his four arms just as I was about to fall. It was probably a good thing that there were so many of him that afternoon. I was nearly a dead weight by then, and I doubt that one man could have carried me. "
23 " Babyland, a country where sleep is forbidden and day is indistinguishable from night, a walled-off kingdom governed by the whims of a tiny, absolute monarch. "
24 " ...vlastito tijelo nastanjivala je poput mačke. Nije mi bila toliko lijepa koliko egzotična, premda je izraz možda pretjeran za ono što želim reći. Sposobnost da se ostavi dojam, bilo bi to vjerojatno točnije onomu što pokušavam reći, određeni samodostatni izgled koji je čovjeka tjerao da je poželi gledati čak i kad bi samo besposleno sjedila "
25 " No digo que sea malo. Es joven, simplemente. Demasiado literario, demasiado orgulloso de su propia inteligencia. "
26 " De obicei la lucrurile complicate-s bun. Alea simple mă cam încurc în ele. "
27 " Nimeni nu poate spune ce anume dă naștere unei cărti, și cu atât mai puțin cel care o scrie. Cărțile se nasc din ignoranță iar dacă trăiesc și după ce au fost scrise, asta se întâmplă numai și numai pentru că nu pot fi înțelese. "
28 " We were all growing old, and the only thing we could count on anymore was each other. (...) They were the people I loved, and it was their souls I carried around inside me. "
29 " ...and just then, in one of those unbidden flashes of insight, it occurred to him that nothing was meaningless, that everything in the world was connected to everything else. "
30 " The boundaries of my world had shrunk, but I was still alive, and as long as I could go on breathing and farting and thinking my thoughts, what difference did it make where I was? "
31 " I learned that freedom can be dangerous. If you don’t watch out, it can kill you. "