“One day you will be completely alone. So try to be completely alone now. Because now you can recognize the beauty that is there.”
“You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world...”
“There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.”
“...it took me a lifetime of glimpses, but now I see you completely - did I tell you you're beautiful? so kind to animals, children and me...”
“And so was Luria, whose words now came back to me: ‘A man does not consist of memory alone. He has feeling, will, sensibility, moral being ... It is here ... you may touch him, and see a profound change.’ Memory, mental activity, mind alone, could not hold him; but moral attention and action could hold him completely.”
“Because I don’t want to be alone right now.” His voice echoes through the night.I turn around to face him one last time. “You weren’t alone, asshole.”