Character: The narrator
I live in the places where the greatest crimes in history were committed. Perhaps this is what helps me understand the gorilla and his mistrust.
If a person does not have character, he must at least develop methodicality.
Perhaps if people tried to live easier, like fairies, everyday life would become a little more fun.
You have to be either very stupid or very brave to turn your back on the enemy.
The truth has always made me regret uncertainty.
While his lively and cunning eye was moving, Judas seemed simple and kind, but when both eyes stopped motionless and the skin on his bulging forehead gathered into old bumps and folds, there was a painful guess about some very special thoughts tossing and turning under this skull. They were completely alien, very special, they had no language at all, they surrounded the pondering Iscariot with a deaf silence of secrets, and I wanted him to speak, move, even lie as soon as possible. For the very lie spoken in human language seemed to be truth and light in front of this hopelessly deaf and unresponsive silence.
The game in life does not tolerate mistakes, because every extra second can be fatal.
New ideas lead to new strategies.
All your actions matter. And for you, and for the whole world.
The highest test of conscience is the willingness to give everything in order to protect what is most dear to you.
Every erudite is inclined to overestimate his erudition.
Quote Explanation: From the chapter «Modigliani draws Akhmatova»
If you don't give up, you will look stupid. It's like saying goodbye and leaving without opening your hands. Good manners teach us never to do that.
Climbing is like doing yoga, with the difference that yoga doesn't move you anywhere.
People - they will enter any door that comes across on the way. They'll press any buttons they see. They will stretch high and lean low just to achieve their goals. And grab whatever they like with both hands. But they don't know how to fly and will never learn.
Quote Explanation: The quote is pure baphos: under the guise of reasoning about human nature, there are hints on how the player should control his character.
Two years after the events, which ends our story here found two skeletons - one of them hugged the other. When I tried to tear them apart, they crumbled to dust...
