He was filled with horror at the thought of what a child becomes, and what the dead must feel watching the change from innocence to guilt and powerless to stop it
From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next year...death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose lif...
Είχα ξεχάσει εδώ και πολύ καιρό να δίνομαι και ν' ανήκω σ' οτιδήποτε, σε τέτοιο βαθμό που θα μπορούσε να πει κανείς πως είχα χάσει κατά κάποιον τρόπο την ικανότητα να ενδιαφέρομαι.
You think you are so bad,' she said, 'but it was only because you couldn't bear the pain. But they can bear pain - other people's pain - endlessly. They are the people who don't care.
If they think you admire them, they will admire you because of your good taste, and when they admire you, you have an illusion for a moment that there's something to admire. All my life I've tried to...
I shut my eyes and she was again the same as she used to be: she was the hiss of steam, the clink of a cup, she was a certain hour of the night and the promise of rest.