“Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?”
“The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.”
“Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.”
“This happiness rendered absurd men's desire to dominate, to kill, to possess, thought Volsky. For neither Mila nor he possessed anything. Their joy came from the things one does not possess, from what other people had abandoned or scorned. But, above all, this sunset, this scent of warm bark, these clouds above the young trees in the graveyard, these belonged to everybody!”
“There's no end to the absurd things people will do trying to make life mean something.”
“Why you need a reason for everything? Reason is something people say to make sense of things that don't make sense.”