

“Quand j'étais petit, je me suis aperçu que je n'avais pas de ligne de chance, alors avec le rasoir de mon pére... zac, je m'en suis fait une comme je voulais.”
― La ballade de la mer salée
― La ballade de la mer salée

“...to this day there is something illusionistic and illusory about the relationship of time and space as we experience it in traveling, which is why whenever we come home from elsewhere we never feel quite sure if we have really been abroad.”
― Austerlitz
― Austerlitz

“Some love is so powerful after all, that it must always include sadness, because encrypted within it is the knowledge that someday it will come to an end.”
― Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
― Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad

“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment

“Come let me kiss you. Life was never so precious as today— when it meant so little.”
― Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
― Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
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