"Every period in history has its own punishments, and ours has a multitude."

"Besides, I simply had to get back to my books right away, because the company of most people, once the predictable ev…"

"For the sake of having her with me I had to tolerate the shadow of a tracksuited poet, but one who has taken the guis…"

"Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases. (Page 1)"

"It is a peculiarity of time that in retrospect it appears so compact, an indivisible solid object, a dish with only o…"

"From the number of self-murderers he had known-you had to put it that way, for the fact that someone died rounded off…"

"It would be like this when you were really old-a city full of imaginary houses and women, rooms and girls. (Page 125)"

"I had breezed home on the wings of five gins."

"My tears are only triggered by kitsch."

"We will feel the draft blowing through the cracks in the structure of causality."