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The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels QUOTES

The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels QUOTES

1 " On our way home we throw the apples, the biscuits, the chocolate and the coins in the tall grass by the roadside. It is impossible to throw away the stroking on our hair "

― Ágota Kristóf , The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels

2 " It is impossible to throw away the stroking on our hair. "

― Ágota Kristóf , The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels

3 " I answer that I try to write true stories but that at a given point the story becomes unbearable because of it’s very truth, and then I have to change it. I tell her that I try to tell my story but all of a sudden I can’t-I don’t have the courage, it hurts too much. And so I embellish everything and describe things not as they happened but the way I wished they happened.
She says, “Yes, there are lives sadder than the saddest of books.” I say, “Yes. No book, no matter how sad, can be as sad as a life. "

― Ágota Kristóf , The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels

4 " You don't want to fight the enemy anymore?"
"I don't want to fight anyone. I have no enemies. I want to go home. "

― Ágota Kristóf , The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels

5 " As soon as you begin to think, you can no longer love life "

― Ágota Kristóf , The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels

6 " No book, no matter how sad, can be as sad as a life. "

― Ágota Kristóf , The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels

7 " Seen nothing? Idiot! We have all the work and all the worry: children to feed, wounds to tend. Once the war is over, you men are all heroes. The dead: heroes. The survivors: heroes. The maimed: heroes. That’s why you invented war. It’s your war. You wanted it, so get on with it – heroes, my ass! "

― Ágota Kristóf , The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels

8 " And death hasn’t come. It never does come when you call it. It enjoys torturing us. I’ve been calling for it for years and it pays me no attention "

― Ágota Kristóf , The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels

9 " You will forget. Life is like that. Everything goes in time. Memories blur, pain diminishes. I remember my wife as one remembers a bird or a flower "

― Ágota Kristóf , The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels

10 " Don’t be sentimental. Everything dies "

― Ágota Kristóf , The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels

11 " I go to bed and before falling asleep I talk to Lucas in my head the way I have for many years. What I tell him is just about what I usually do. I tell him that if he's dead he's lucky and I'd very much like to be in his place. I tell him that he got the better deal, that it is I who is pulling the greater weight. I tell him that life is totally useless, that it's nonsense, an aberration, infinite suffering, the invention of a non-God whose evil surpasses understanding. "

― Ágota Kristóf , The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels

12 " Every one of us commits a fatal mistake sometime in his life. When we realize it, the damage is already done "

― Ágota Kristóf , The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels

13 " – Where are they now?
– The dead are nowhere and everywhere "

― Ágota Kristóf , The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels

14 " Yes, sir. Blackmail…Yes. It’s deplorable that we’ve been forced to this "

― Ágota Kristóf , The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels

15 " People are cruel. They like to kill. It’s the war that has taught them that. And there are explosives lying around everywhere "

― Ágota Kristóf , The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels

16 " Le parole che definiscono i sentimenti sono molto vaghe; è meglio evitare il loro impiego e attenersi alle descrizioni degli oggetti, degli esseri umani e di se stessi, vale a dire alla descrizione fedele dei fatti. "

― Ágota Kristóf , The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels

17 " It is easier to give than to receive, is that it? Pride is a sin, Father "

― Ágota Kristóf , The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels

18 " I don’t think. I can’t allow myself the luxury. I’ve lived with fear since I was a child "

― Ágota Kristóf , The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels

19 " Physical wounds don’t matter when I receive them. But if I had to inflict them on someone else, that would wound me in a way I couldn’t bear "

― Ágota Kristóf , The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels

20 " Death will obliterate everything soon "

― Ágota Kristóf , The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels