“Living and seizing to live are imaginary solutions. Existence lies elsewhere.”

“Living and ceasing to live are imaginary solutions; existence is elsewhere.”

“When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.”

“For the secret of human existence lies not only in living, but in knowing what to live for.”

“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”

“And if the prodigious genius of Azarya Sheiner has never found the solution, then perhaps that is proof that no solution exists, that the most gifted among us is feeble in mind against the brutality of incomprehensibility that assutalts us from all sides. And so we try, as best we cn, to do justice to the tremendousness of our improbable existence. And so we live, as best we can, for ourselves, or who will live for us? And we live, as best we can, for others, otherwise what are we?”