Ben Sharafski > Quotes

“Life is inherently uncertain; the only thing to anchor us is those we love.”
― Ben Sharafski, Returning to Carthage

“when you want something desperately enough, the reality you need to fabricate in order to attain it becomes your truth.”
― Ben Sharafski, Returning to Carthage

“She lived in a small flat in a long barracks-style block of an almost Soviet austerity. The claustrophobic living room’s walls were lined with books: bulky hard-cover volumes of the collected works of various Japanese novelists, encyclopaedias, a smattering of translated works — Shakespeare (“Hamuretto”), Dostoevsky, Balzac.”
― Ben Sharafski, Returning to Carthage

“We accept with equanimity the fact that we did not exist one hundred years ago. Why should our non-existence a hundred years hence trigger such dread?”
― Ben Sharafski, Returning to Carthage