Character: Maurice Conchis

- It turns out that I have more fellow sufferers than I thought.
- Sufferers?
- And how else to call those who are subjected to agony, leaving no choice?
Sounds like a strict definition of the human race.

According to the Spanish proverb, swim faster by learning just a drowning man.

- Propose to go through an entire war for a single moment.
- And if I refuse?
- Think. A minute later you will be able to say: I risked my life. I played with death and won. Amazing feeling. If will survive.

- Not everything can be explained with words.
- At Oxford, we were saying that if the words does not come out the other way and try and nothing.

One cannot broaden the scope of private life.

Men like to fight because this activity gives them importance. Because otherwise women how men think, always will laugh at them.

... in any mystery is concealed energy. And he who is looking for the answer, this energy feeds.

Nineteen people disagree just to do things. It is important all the time to justify.

You are sick. You exist by death. And not life.

What I was saying to the crucified Christ? Why did You leave me? And the man was repeating something less touching, less pathetic, and therefore less humane, but much more meaningful. He was talking to me from inside the alien world. Where was I, life had no price. It was valued too high and therefore was priceless. Where he lived, only one thing had a comparable price. Eleftheria - freedom. She was the stronghold, the essence - above reason, above logic, above culture, above story. She was not a God, for in the earthly knowledge of God is not manifested. But being unknowable deity she confirmed. She gave you the unconditional right to renunciation. On free choice. It is - or what took its appearance - was overshadowed and possessed of Vimala and void the German and Austrian warriors. It embraced all manifestations of freedom - from the worst to the best. The freedom to escape the battle under Neapel. Freedom to fight with the primitive God seydvarre. Freedom to gut rural dev and neutered boys pliers. She rejected morality, but born was the hidden essence of things; she allowed all were allowed except one - except for any prohibitions.

We feel that we live only because the prisoners at Belsen died. We feel that our world exists only because of the thousands of worlds die in the supernova. That smile means: could be, but there is.

Here, on the border, falling leaves. And though it's just savages and you're a thousand miles away, always two cups on my table.

I do not spend time to preach to the deaf.

Learn to smile.