“In other words: It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not. Or, more bluntly: Wherever I am not is the place where I am myself. Or else, taking the bull by the horns: Anywhere out of the world.”
“It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.”
“Here I am of the air, a beautiful thing for the light to shine on. Perhaps you will remember that. I am...”
“By wandering aimlessly, all places became equal, and it no longer mattered where he was.”
“... he had understood that memory was a place, a real place that one could visit, and that to spend a few moments among the dead was not necessarily bad for you, that it could in fact be a source of great comfort and happiness.”
“I was looking for a quiet place to die.”