Besides, I simply had to get back to my books right away, because the company of most people, once the predictable events have taken their course, does not inspire conversation on my part.
Cees Nooteboom
Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.
fantasy self-knowledge language words self-deception
Time is the system that must prevent everything happening at once.
time
Conversations consist for the most part of things one does not say.
conversation
rights people
That is the difference between gods and men. Gods can change themselves; humans can only be changed.
change men
I had breezed home on the wings of five gins.
home
Every period in history has it's own punishments, and ours has a multitude.
history
For the sake of having her with me I had to tolerate the shadow of a tracksuited poet, but one who has taken the guise of a man in love will indiscriminately eat and drink platefuls of thistles, barrels of vinegar.
man
We will feel the draft blowing through the cracks in the structure of causality.
causality
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