“Nowadays, her life is more like a newspaper: aimless, up-to-date and full of meaningless events”

“There wasn't a single item of importance [in the newspaper]. A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of important things, it really would be a dangerous house of glass, scarcely to be handled carelessly. But everyday life was exactly like the headlines. And so everybody, knowing the meaninglessness of existence, sets the center of his compass at his own home.”

“Because my life is empty window of nothingness punctuated by meaningless details of totally mundane non-events.”

“Is there an expiration date on marriages nowadays? ...For some people, yes.”

“Weeks passed like boats waiting to sail into the starless dawn, we were full of aimless endless darkness.”

“This life we live nowadays. It's not life, it's stagnation death-in-life. Look at all these bloody houses and the meaningless people inside them. Sometimes I think we're all corpses. Just rotting upright.”