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“- Parle-moi... Et j'entends "Parle-moi, sinon, je meurs." - De quoi veux-tu que je parle? - De chez nous. Dis-moi ce qu'il y a là-bas. [...] - Chez nous, il y a... il y a des chats qui font leur toilette au soleil sur les bords des fenêtres... il y a des affiches déchirées aux murs des maisons... il y a des papiers de Carambar par terre... des odeurs de lilas dans la rue en dessous de chez nous... - Continue... - il y a... des magazines dans les magasins... des bicyclettes abandonnées avec la roue avant qui manque... il y a des gens qui crient "c'est pas fini ce boucan?"... des feuilles d'automne couleur de rouille... il y a maman qui secoue un tapis par la fenêtre de la chambre... - Continue... - il y a la pluie qui rebondit sur les pavés... des enfants qui disent "d'accord, j'arrive!"... des crayons à papier avec la petite gomme au bout... il y a des flans au caramel qu'on retourne dans l'assiette et le caramel coule dessus... il y a la veste de pépé Marcello accrochée dans le couloir... Je me tais.”

“It gave him a kind of nervous satisfaction to see his basic grievance against reality confirmed once again by reality itself; nothing hold still. Every time you turned out around, something else had gone rotten, or fallen into despair, or disappeared entirely. In a universe that couldn't be trusted, that could at any moment just as likely as not blow up in your face like a bomb, you had to carve out your own island of order and control, however arbitrary, however illusory, just to keep going.”

“This is what you get. To work in a nice place with a few interesting people, to have friends with whom to discuss life and ideas. To attend the theatre, to hear live music, to arrange the use of the studio room on Monday nights for the local philosophy reading group. Oh, Kierkegaard, that'll be interesting. To exercise once again, for a little time, who knows how long, the power to charm and fascinate, to be the object of an intense and searching desire. And to feel inside herself the reciprocating force of desire, this is what she gets, a life of her own.”

“Sacrificing animals to a fancied god is a stone-age thought. It is an unrighteous act; is not dharma. It is bad karma. If at all, then, do sacrifice your silly ego, your bad deeds and vile thoughts. The Divine seeks no beastly sacrifice. It is the deed of an un-realized lot.”

“Everyone talks about the grief of losing someone you love, but they don’t talk about the grief of losing everything familiar. It’s not just the person; it’s the life you shared, the little things that connected you to them. The mug my mom used for coffee, the pictures of her and us on the walls, the spot where Pacha tore the rug that she mended. It’s been seven years since she did that. The dog died two years ago and now mom has passed, but that line in the rug is still as clear in my sight as the day she sewed it.”

“Or what The evil for us, if we had ne'er been born?— As though, forsooth, in darkling realms and woe Our life were lying till should dawn at last The day-spring of creation! Whosoever Hath been begotten wills perforce to stay In life, so long as fond delight detains; But whoso ne'er hath tasted love of life, And ne'er was in the count of living things, What hurts it him that he was never born?”

“Кожна людина може зробити за своє життя книжку. Кожна, але лише одну. Ті, котрі думають, що написали багато книжок, помиляються - то все триває роблення однієї. Поза свою книжку не вискочиш, хай що б ти змінював. Можна підробити, а не створити. Твоя єдина книжка обмежена твоїм тембром, інтонаціями, артикуляцією. Доля - це спосіб говорити.”