Erich Maria Remarque. The hour (№ 197876)

Lady Kinsley, unable to free himself from his obsession, I realized that there occurred one of those moments when life suddenly stops, and things get so strange and terrible power that man is helpless; life is terminated, and all communications disappear. Lady Kinsley felt that in these moments the mysterious subordination to the laws of nature she was at the mercy of occasion and even a minor accident can be decisive for the whole of her future life.