But, you see, if being an intellectual means you like to learn, that you’re curious and attentive and can admire things and be moved by them and try to understand how it all hangs together, and try to go to bed a bit less stupid than the day before, well, then yes: not only am I an intellectual but I’m proud to be one. Really proud, even.

I never knew a sorrow that an hour of reading could not assuage, a great man had once said. Let’s put it to the test.

It’s a hypothesis. History won’t take us far enough to confirm it. And our certainties never really hold water. One day you feel like dying and the next you realize all you had to do was go down a few stairs to find the light switch so you could see things a bit more clearly.

She’s pretty, but in her face you can see all the things she’s given up on in life.

How could you let yourself be sidetracked while I was waiting for your breath on my back?

Perhaps it’s because it’s incredible to meet someone and say: with this person, I’m happy.

What keeps people from living together is their stupidity, not their differences.

Life is stronger than you are, even when you deny it, even when you neglect it, even when you refuse to admit it.

Weißt du...Deine Toast, die waren absolut phantastisch...

،زندگی حتی وقتی انکارش می‌کنی،حتی وقتی نادیده‌اش می‌گیریحتی وقتی نمی‌خواهی‌اش .از تو قوی‌تر است .از هر چیز دیگری قوی‌تر استآدم‌هایی که از بازداشتگاه‌های کار اجباری برگشتند.دوباره زاد و ولد کردند،مردان و زنانی که شکنجه دیده بودندکه مرگ نزدیکانشان و سوخته شدن خانه‌هایشان را ،دیده بودند،دوباره دنبال اتوبوس‌ها دویدندبه پیش بینی‌های هوا‌شناسی با دقت گوش کردند.و دختر‌هایشان را شوهر دادند.باور کردنی نیست اما همین گونه است.زندگی از هر چیز دیگری قوی‌تر است