Nikolski Quotes

“In my view, fate is like intelligence, or beauty, or type z + lymphocytes - some individuals have a greater supply than others. I, for one, suffer from a deficiency; I am a clerk in a bookstore whose life is devoid of complications or a storyline of its own. My life is governed by the attraction of books. The weak magnetic field of my fate is distorted by those thousands of fates more powerful and more interesting than my own.”
― Nicolas Dickner, Nikolski

“A thousand years earlier, an old nomad lay down in this circle of stone to finally put an end to his migrations. His soul and his carbon-14 were carried off by the wind, but his bones have not moved since then.”
― Nicholas Dickner, Nikolski

“Elle souffrait par ailleurs de claustrophobie, un problème sans doute naturel lorsqu'on appartient à une famille éparpillée aux quatres coins de l'Amérique du Nord”
― Nicolas Dickner, Nikolski

“Il faut dire que l'apparence d'une clôture change considérablement selon le côté où l'on se trouve”
― Nicolas Dickner, Nikolski

“...she is living on the outskirts of a precious world that is slipping away. On the other side of this window, events take their course and there is no stopping them, no way of affecting their inherent logic. Each second, each moment, unfolds for the first and last time. The process cannot be reversed, cannot be copied or backed up. The windowpane has misted over from [her] breath. The outside world gradually recedes, and reality seems more and more a relative thing.”
― Nicholas Dickner, Nikolski

“Mais que gaspillerait-il, au juste? De l'espace? Des centimètres carrés? Du vide? Peut-on gaspiller du vide?”
― Nicolas Dickner, Nikolski