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Paul Auster - The Book of Illusions (2002)

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Men don't begin to live fully until their backs are against the wall.

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I didn't say I was afraid of dying,... I said that I was afraid to get on a plane. There is a difference.

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If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it fall, does it make a sound or not? Hector had read a lot of books by then, he knew all the tricks and arguments of the philosophers. If someone makes a movie and no one sees it, does the movie exist or not?

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That's what makes his story so impossible,.... Because he's told me the truth.

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I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof.

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Born: February 3, 1947
Died: April 30, 2024 (aged 77)
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