“كل شيء يدعو لجلوس القرفصاء .”

“I knew it would soon be the end, so I played the part, you know, the part of-how shall I say, I don’t know.”

“e earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied cloudless sky. A small boy, stretching out his hands and looking up at the blue sky, asked his mother how such a thing was possible. Fuck off, she said.”

“Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.”

“Astride of a grave and a difficult birth. Down in the hole, lingeringly, the gravedigger puts on the forceps.”

“All life long, the same questions, the same answers.”

“It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.”