Dino Buzzati. Tatar desert (№ 328789)

Time sped quickly to the fact that his soul did not have time to grow old. And although a vague anxiety about the irrevocably lost with each passing day, declares himself stronger, he stubbornly refuses to abandon the illusion that the most important thing is still ahead. He is patiently waiting in the wings, which does not come, he does not think that the future was terribly shortened, that it is not the same as before, when it seemed almost infinite - a sort of inexhaustible wealth that can be spent without regard.