Book: Satanic Tango

... It is not enough to guess about something, ladies and gentlemen, so we will not come to anything. We need to understand the problem and immediately identify it!

But can rock be unexpected? And since what happened was predetermined by fate, then how can we talk about an accident?

... Happiness is only where the mind is.

She used to think that failure was unbearable. Now Eshtike realized that victory was unbearable, because in a monstrous struggle it was shameful not that she remained at the top, but that she had no chance of defeat.

... As long as memory tries to fill the short-lived, easily elusive "now" with confidence and connect with life, to connect the living threads of the rules of this order in a free sequence of events, a person is forced to build a bridge between life and memories not with a feeling of freedom, but rather with the cramped satisfaction of the owner ...

... In difficult hours, when the "suffering man" plunges into liberating depths of self-accusation, he admitted to himself that his fifty-two easily slipped years are as insignificant against the background of the great struggle for existence as the smoke of a cigarette in a flaming train carriage is invisible.

Sometimes a person is no longer happy with everything. Do you know how much money we managed to save? Can you imagine? And, I would have killed everyone, honestly!

Futaki looked sadly at the ominously looming sky, at the burnt remnants of the summer devastated by the locust raid, and suddenly saw how spring, summer, autumn and winter pass through the acacia branches one after another, and it seemed to him that time was nothing more than a frivolous episode in the vast expanses of eternity, a devilish trick with the aim of creating an appearance of order out of chaos, in which every chance takes the form of inevitability ...