Alex

“Just as for a long time people were deceived about the movement of the sun, so we are still deceived about the movement of what is to come. The future is fixed, dear Mr Kappus, but we move around in infinite space.”

“Sunt lacrimi care sfredelesc pământul și răsar ca aștri pe alte tărâmuri. Cine ne-o fi plâns stelele noastre? Dar eu îmi caut lacrimile pe întunericul atâtor ceruri...”

‘We chanted “We have no weapons”. The only thing we had with us were candles and flowers...There was blood everywhere and I could hear bones cracking'

‘when you go hand in hand with someone and all at once that person vanishes there, into nowhere, and you yourself are left facing that abyss, and look in. And I have looked in...'

Pierre glanced up at the sky and the twinkling stars in its faraway depths. ‘And all that is me, all that is within me, and it is all I!'

“The light shines into the act of life for only the briefest moment - perhaps only a matter of seconds. Once it is gone and one has failed to grasp its offered revelation, there is no second chance. One may have to live the rest of one's life in hopeless depths of loneliness and remorse. In that twilight world, one can no longer look forward to anything. All that such a person holds in his hands is the withered corpse of what should have been.”