Book: The train arrives on schedule

I had to come here, to this Lemberg brothel, in order to find out that there is love without lust.

It seemed to me that I love only her soul. But what is a soul without a body?

You often hurt the one you love, this is the law of love.

It is indeed a sin to go to a brothel.

She is sent to the room, two hundred and fifty marks will be paid for her, because she is an expensive little doll. What a terrible life. She is sent to the room, and she does not even know who is there. An old man, a youth, a freak or a handsome man, a debauchee or a virgin.

Joy washes away a lot, just as suffering washes away a lot.

Life is Beautiful. I was ungrateful, I denied that there are simple human joys.

Andreas wants to pray, he certainly wants to pray, first to read all the usual prayers and a few more of his own, and then he wants to count, he wants to count all those for whom the Lord should be prayed for, but, he thinks, this is stupid, you can’t count them all.

The roar of the wheels lulls them so well, drives away all thoughts, shakes out thoughtfulness, this uniform tra-ta-ta, tra-ta-ta lulls them.

Nothing can be done for fun.

A person always has something to repent of.

If a person knows that he is going to die, he must collect his thoughts, repent and pray, he must pray a lot.

A person who no longer eats bread is a lost person.

We live in hope.