“Where are they all going? What for? Do they never hear the rhythm of the wheels or see the bare plains outside the windows? They know everything there is to know about this life, but they still move on along the corridor, from the W.C. to their compartment, from the lobby to the restaurant, gradually transforming today into one more yesterday, and they think that a God exists who will reward them or punish them for it.”
― The Yellow Arrow
― The Yellow Arrow
“I am closest of all to happiness—although I won’t attempt to define just what it is—when I turn away from the window and am aware, with the edge of my consciousness, that a moment ago I was not here, there was simply the world outside the window, and something beautiful and incomprehensible, something which there is absolutely no need to ‘comprehend,’ existed for a few seconds instead of the usual swarm of thoughts, of which one, like a locomotive, pulls all the others after it, absorbs them all and calls itself ‘I’.”
― The Yellow Arrow
― The Yellow Arrow
“Прошлое - это локомотив, который тянет за собой будущее. Бывает, что это прошлое вдобавок чужое. Ты едешь спиной вперед и видишь только то, что уже исчезло.”
― The Yellow Arrow
― The Yellow Arrow
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