“The doors leading to the past are never fully closed, Adrian would say later. But their positions change all the time and you can never predict where they will be and so it is impossible to prepare yourself before you arrive at this gateway or that, unsure if there is any other way of getting in.”
― De utvalda
― De utvalda
“Willingly or not we come to terms with power, forgetting that we are all in the ghetto, that the ghetto is walled in, that outside the ghetto reign the lords of death, and that close by the train is waiting." by Primo Levi in Drowned”
― The Drowned and the Saved
― The Drowned and the Saved
“I often wonder if the bill is yet to be presented during our lifetime. If not, I must present it to myself.”
― Ein Tag im Jahr im neuen Jahrhundert: 2001-2011
― Ein Tag im Jahr im neuen Jahrhundert: 2001-2011
“And though I've lived to be an old man with my very own share of happiness for all the mess I made, I still judge every joyous moment, every victory and revelation against those few seconds of living.”
― Breath
― Breath
“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”
― Sailing Alone around the World
― Sailing Alone around the World
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