And because people are stupid and use their noses only for blowing, but believe absolutely anything they see with their eyes, they will say it is bec….

...talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything..

He was not bound. No one led him by the arm. He got out of the carriage as if he were a free man..

He realized that all his life he had been a nobody to everyone. What he now felt was the fear of his own oblivion. It was as though he did not exist..

He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice..

With one glance he had got himself trapped in the brown fundament of her eyes, he was in danger of sinking, as if into a soft, brown swamp, and he ha….

There comes a time in every man's life when he needs his own toilet..

He had preserved the best part of her and made it his own: the principle of her scent..

How quickly the apparently solidly laid foundation of one's existence could crumble..

As long as I don't have an idea, I won't write anything..

He had withdrawn solely for his own personal pleasure, only to be near to himself. No longer distracted by anything external, he basked in his own ex….

For people could close their eyes to greatness, to horrors, to beauty, and their ears to melodies or deceiving words. But they couldn't escape scent.….

...he came to the conclusion that you cannot depend on people, and that you can live in peace only if you keep them at arm's length..

She was indeed a girl of exquisite beauty. She was one of those languid women made of dark honey smooth and sweet and terribly sticky..

It was good, really, that this external world still existed, if only as a place of refuge..

Not a visible enthusiasm but a hidden one, an excitement burning with a cold flame..

And suddenly solitude fell across his heart like a dusty reflection. He closed his eyes. The dark doors within him opened and he entered. The next pe….

No human being can go on living in the same house with a pigeon, a pigeon is the epitomy of chaos and anarchy, a pigeon that whizzes around unpredict….

He possessed the power. He held it in his hand. A power stronger than the power of money or the power of terror or the power of death: the invincible….

When they finally did dare it, at first with stolen glances and then candid ones, they had to smile. They were uncommonly proud. For the first time t….

And finally - he was neither able nor willing to prevent it - the self-loathing dammed up inside him spilled over and gushed out, gushed out of glari….