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Journey by Moonlight

Book by Antal Szerb · 3 quotes · Consciousness, Death, Fate

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All Consciousness Death Fate Longing Waiting

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“And he knew he would not be travelling home. If he had to wear a donkey jacket and wait for fifty years, then he would wait. At last there was a place in the world where he had reason to be, a place that had meaning. For days, without realising it, he had sensed this meaning everywhere, in the streets, houses, ruins and temples of Rome. It could not be said of the feeling that it was 'filled with pleasurable expectation'. Rome and its millennia were not by nature associated with happiness, and what Mihály anticipated from the future was not what is usually conjured up by 'pleasurable expectation'. He was awaiting his fate, the logical, appropriately Roman, ending.”

Waiting Consciousness Fate

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“All of a sudden, a deadly longing seized him, a longing such as he'd only known when very young, but this was a more reflected, burning longing: for he was longing for the longing he'd known in youth, so sharply that he had to shout.”

Longing

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“The stronger civilization becomes, the more deeply the love of death is buried in the subconscious.”

Death

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