Definitive resolutions are made always and only in a state of mind that is not destined to last.

As eight years before, he was leaving ... to rewrite his destiny in orderly fashion.

Say the sea. Say the sea. Say the sea. So that perhaps a drop of that magic may wander through time, and something might find it, and save it before it disappears forever. Say the sea. Because it's what we have left. Because faced by the sea, we without crosses, without magic, we must still have a weapon, something, so as not to die in silence, that's all.

You were dead.' She said. 'And in the whole world there was nothing beautiful left.

This is the seashore. Neither land nor sea. It’s a place that does not exist.

... he was one of those men who like to be observers at their own lives ... such people observe their destiny much as most people tend to observe a rainy day.

We are full of words whose true meaning we haven't been taught, and one of those words is suffering. Another is the word death. We don't know what they mean, but we use them, and this is a mystery.