Uta

“The point is: his life was not centered around the place where he lived. His house was just one of many stopping places in a restless, unmoored existence, and this lack of center had the effect of turning him into a perpetual outsider, a tourist of his own life. You never had the feeling that he could be located.”
― Paul Auster, The Invention of Solitude

“pity was insatiable—a false virtue that always craved more suffering to show how limitless and magnificent it could be.”
― Hernan Diaz, In the Distance

“La simplicité est la complexité résolue.”
― Constantin Brancusi

“The terrifying freedom of knowing that nothing, from now on, will become a memory”
― Hernan Diaz, Trust