Ivan > Ivan's Quotes

“This is the seashore. Neither land nor sea. It’s a place that does not exist.”
― Alessandro Baricco, Ocean Sea

“It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.”
― Paul Auster

“Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

“Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.”
― Paul Auster

“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
― Socrates

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

“Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment.”
― Edna O'Brien, In the Forest