Book: Where were you, Adam?

He understood that it was pointless to wait, and at the same time he knew that he had to wait. It was necessary to give Providence this last opportunity to arrange everything for the better - although he was convinced that the worst had already happened.

To smell good and not sweat in this heat, you need money, and, of course, they don’t have money.

When he became a traveling salesman, he had a hard time. He scoured in search of people with extra money, but, as a sin, almost no one had extra money.

Bressen began to give lessons in good manners. The city in which he lived was an ideal place for such an occupation. Many of the local nouveaux riches did not even suspect that it was customary to eat fish differently than meat. All their lives, these people generally ate with their hands, and now, having become the owners of cars, mansions and expensive women, they literally climbed out of their skin just to learn good manners.

It is simply amazing how quickly he mastered all types and shades of bows. A short bow, a deep bow, a half bow, a casual nod. The scale of bows in the restaurant was simple - everything depended on the wallet and the amount of the bill.

There, in the distance, the sun had sunk down directly onto the street and, like a flattened luminous apple, lay in the dust between the miserable houses.

The sun was still in the sky just above the houses, like a red-hot iron egg rolling over the flat white roofs.

He was a mediocre architect and he knew it, and yet wonderful thing to be an architect and build simple, good houses, which some people then even love. Just don't take yourself too seriously, don't think too much about yourself - that says it all.

...many people are mistaken, thinking that a shiny trinket on the chest or under the collar can change a person. They seem to think that the wimp becomes a hero, but a fool will learn from, it is necessary only to pin him to the uniform order, perhaps even deserved. ...if you order the breast and can change a person, most for the worst.

...applying power, you can put the fear in the people, but unlikely to make them work better.

...in this war too often without a good shot. See, it just so happened from the beginning.

- Look, Lieutenant, the front for several hundred kilometers long is heading back already. It seems to me that in these one hundred and fifty metres from where we stand, you the knight's cross does not deserve. Now is the time to get out, and get caught here like a beast in a trap, and no dog will do it for us remember.
- I need somewhere to keep the front!

The hands of the clock crawl slowly scary until you look at them, but it is necessary to briefly look away and then look again and find that the arrows and then jump around the dial.

...in fact, a man to anything not forced, man can only destroy, death is the only violence that can be really over him to inflict. Man is not forced to stay alive, not make love; real power over him only death.