3 February 2015

“Life is so short, so fragile, so mystifying. After all, how many people do we actually love in the course of a lifetime? Just a few, a tiny few. When most of them are gone, the map of your inner world changes.”

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—Paul Auster, born on this day in 1947 The Art of Fiction No. 178, interviewed by Michael Wood in “The Paris Review” no. 167 (Fall 2003)

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