So many crucial events take place behind people’s backs, when they aren’t in a position to watch: birth and death, for instance. And the temporary oblivion of sex. “Don’t even think about it,” he tells himself. Sex is like drink, it’s bad to start brooding about it too early in the day.

“When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confu…”

“Every child should have love, every person should have it. She herself would ra…”

“Men can imagine their own deaths, they can see them coming, and the mere though…”

“It's impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because what you say can…”