Status Updates From Die Flucht ohne Ende

"Tunda had a few letters of introduction from his brother and from acquaintances. He paid calls."

-Roth, Joseph. Flight Without End.

"My brother probably denies my moral justification for living. I have no vocation and earn no money. I even consider myself guilty because I eat his bread and butter. Anyway, I am quite unfitted to hold down a job anywhere unless they were to pay me for getting angry at the world. I am not even in harmony with any of the ruling ideologies."

-Roth, Joseph. Flight Without End.

"Tunda stood in the corridor and smoked. He did not see the notice which strictly forbade this because men do not see the irrelevant."

-Roth, Joseph. Flight Without End.

"Tunda’s brother George was an orchestral conductor in a medium-sized German city."

-Roth, Joseph. Flight Without End.

"So Tunda found himself in Vienna. He drew unemployment relief, lived wretchedly, and looked up a few of his old friends. They informed him that his fiancée was married, and probably living in Paris."

-Roth, Joseph. Flight Without End.

"..Lenin’s mausoleum was black; up on the roof the red flag licked the sky, illuminated from below. Here was the only place where one still felt the Revolution, and midnight the only time when one dared to feel it."

-Roth, Joseph. Flight Without End.

‘I shan’t forget you,’ said Tunda.
‘Don’t be too sure!’ said Baranowicz.
It was farewell.

-Roth, Joseph. Flight Without End.

"Era un cobarde porque dejaba sola a una mujer. Pero era aún más miserable porque ni siquiera se despedía de ella."

"... la guerra comunista, años en lo que lo único que se sabía era morir, y en los que la vida, el sol, la luna, la tierra y el cielo sólo eran el marco o el telón de fondo de la muerte [...] los diparos se oían como gritos lejanos de las masas en marcha."

Noi non siamo che gocce nell'acqua o scintille nel fuoco, non possiamo uscirne.

L'amava due volte: come una meta e una cosa perduta.