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1. "Their own life together was like a subtle watercolor sketch, invisible to other people. They gave the world what it required of them and for the rest of the time were content to be forgotten." ~ Andreï Makine
2. "Men can be pitiless towards a woman whose body has eluded them, particularly if this is thanks to their own cowardice." ~ Andreï Makine
3. "People speak because they are afraid of silence. They speak mechanically whether aloud or to themselves. They are intoxicated by this vocal gruel that ensnares every object and every being. They talk about rain and fine weather; they talk about money, about love, about nothing. And even when they are talking about their most exalted love, they use words uttered a hundred times, threadbare phrases." ~ Andreï Makine
4. "(...) the translator of prose is the slave of the author and the translator of poetry is his rival." ~ Andreï Makine
5. "...she studies to be equal in a world that is no longer surprised at anything" ~ Andreï Makine
6. "This happiness rendered absurd men's desire to dominate, to kill, to possess, thought Volsky. For neither Mila nor he possessed anything. Their joy came from the things one does not possess, from what other people had abandoned or scorned. But, above all, this sunset, this scent of warm bark, these clouds above the young trees in the graveyard, these belonged to everybody!" ~ Andreï Makine
7. "The though revives in him the oldest memory of his life. A child sees a door closing: without knowing who it is that has just left, he senses it is someone he loves with all his tiny, still mute being." ~ Andreï Makine
8. "They did not speak, surprised to see how simple, almost poor, happiness could be, yes, materially poor and yet so abundant." ~ Andreï Makine
9. "The life these words speak of is not worth the ink they are written in.... He now knows that the only words worth writing down arise when language is impossible." ~ Andreï Makine
10. "An exile's only country is his country's literature." ~ Andreï Makine
11. "Once again, without explaining anything, they understood that they must leave. Go away before this world woke up and continued with a life from which they were forever excluded." ~ Andreï Makine
12. "Volsky once more had the feeling that the bond between them was indifferent to the demise of bodies." ~ Andreï Makine
13. "In war the most testing moments are those of peace , for a dead man lying in the grass makes the living see the world as it would be, but for their folly." ~ Andreï Makine
14. "He had already come to see human lives as one single communal life and it was perhaps this perception that gave him hope." ~ Andreï Makine
15. "Quand la mort nous regarde calmement dans les yeux, nous nous rendons compte qu'il y a eu dans notre vie quelques heures, de soleil ou de nuit, quelques visages auxquels nous revenons sans cesse, et qu'en fait ce qui nous rendait vivants, c'est les simple espoir de les retrouver..." ~ Andreï Makine
16. "That apple orchard is still in flower," I told myself. "Time has passed it by, leaving it behind in a moment that does not pass. An idea that seems as insane as the beauty of those flowering trees that will never bear fruit. But to believe in it gives a supreme meaning to our lives, our encounters, our loves."Then I caught myself mentally addressing Kira, as on so many occasions during these last twenty years.The truth is, I have never stopped walking beside her along an endless corridor lined with snow-clad boughts." ~ Andreï Makine
17. "Historians rewrite the truth every day. What interests us is the truth that gets the reader to reach for his wallet" ~ Andreï Makine
18. "... lumea este totuna cu raul, un rau mereu mai viclean decat poate banui omul, iar binele este una din vicleniile lui." ~ Andreï Makine
19. "Celalalt este alcatuit din întrebari pe care nu îndrazne?ti sa i le pui...Iata una dintre întrebarile de nerostit: ce crezi despre mine? ?i totu?i, ne petrecem timpul presupunând cum ne vad ceilal?i, imaginându-ne pe noi în?ine traind în mintea lor." ~ Andreï Makine
20. "Eu credeam ca în?elepciunea consta în izgonirea acestui delir pe care ceilal?i nu-l observa. ?i se dovede?te ca este exact invers. În?elept e cel care ?tie sa ramâna oarecum orb. Care nu-?i sfâ?ie inima urmarind cu înver?unare toata nebunia cotidiana. Care accepta lini?titoarea falsitate a cuvintelor: razboi, criminali, triumful justi?iei, tânarul chitarist nevinovat care a uitat trecutul..." ~ Andreï Makine

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