[W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.

She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance.

As you live out your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom.

There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.

Leroy interrupted Chantal's fantasies: "Freedom? As you live our your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom. You're free to melt your own individuality into the cauldron of the multitude either with a feeling of defeat or euphoria.

Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other.

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.