The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal.

Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short.

But what had happened, had happened, and it was no longer possible to right anything.

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

and she realized that she (her soul) was not at all involved, only her body, her body alone. The body that had betrayed her and that she had sent out into the world among other bodies.

Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as they were by the experience of a woman who had lost everything because of her child. Tereza would listen and believe that being a mother was the highest value in life and that being a mother was a great sacrifice. If a mother was Sacrifice personified, then a daughter was Guilt, with no possibility of redress.

But then he told himself: What does it really mean to be useful? Today's world, just as it is, contains the sum of the utility of all people of all times. Which implies: The highest morality consists in being useless.