Book: Plague. Page 4

Of course, these days it is no longer surprising that people work from morning till night, and then according to their personal tastes kill them for the remaining life time of the card, sitting in cafes and talking. But there are the cities and countries where people are at least sometimes aware of the existence of something else.

There was not a separate, individual destinies - were only our collective history, or rather, the plague, and it has engendered feelings were divided by all.

When you wait too long, then really do not wait.

giving excessively large value of do good deeds, we in the end give indirect but immoderate praise to the evil. Because in this case, it is easy to assume that good deeds have a price only because they are rare, but anger and indifference are much more common engines of human behavior. Evil exists in the world, almost always the result of ignorance, and any goodwill can cause as much damage as evil, unless this good will is not enough enlightened. People are more good than bad, and, in fact, not in this case. But they are in varying degrees unaware, and this is called virtue or Vice, and the worst Vice is ignorance, who believes that he knows everything, and therefore allow themselves to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind and there is no true goodness, nor the most beautiful love without absolute clarity of vision.

... in the bosom of the great catastrophe is brewing a desire to live.

The beginning of the disaster, as well as the end, is always accompanied by a small dose of rhetoric. In the first case has not yet lost the habit, and in the second she has managed to come back. In the midst of the disasters used to the truth, that is, to silence.

I was born not to write stories... maybe I was born to love a woman. Isn't it in order?

Due to lack of time and thinking ability, people go and like, but don't know it.

Men and women or too fast mutually devour each other in what is called an act of love, or have they gradually formed the habit of being together. Between these two extremes most often there is no middle.

The habit of despair is worse than despair itself.

Question: how to ensure not to waste time?
The answer: to feel time in all its length.
Means: spend days in the waiting room of a dentist on a hard chair; sit on the balcony in the afternoon on Sunday; listen to reports on obscure language to you; choose the longest and most uncomfortable train rides and, of course, go on trips standing; stuck in line at the theater box office and not to take the ticket to the show, etc., etc.

Because a dead man gets in your eyes the weight only if you had seen him dead, a hundred million corpses scattered throughout the history of mankind, in essence, a haze blanketed the imagination.

In order to re-start life don't have to be happy.

In essence, one only interests me to know how to become Holy.
- But you do not believe in God...
- Correctly. Now for me there is only one concrete issue - is it possible to become Holy without God.