Цитаты из книги Death in Spring

Death escaped through my heart, and when I no longer held death within me, I died.

You can have everything you want, but accompanied by pain, until you learn not to want anything.

As soon as they locked him up, I think he began to live because he could no longer wish for anything, everything came from others rather than from himself.

Spring is sad, in spring all the world is ill, plants and flowers are earth’s plague, rotten. The earth would be calmer if it were green-less, without this fury, this blind will that consumes everything but craves more, the affliction of the green, so much greenness and poisonous color.

Let suffering be removed, but not desire, because desire keeps you alive. That’s why they’re afraid. They are consumed by the fear of desire. They want to suffer so they won’t think about desire.

They want to be afraid. They want to believe, and they want to suffer, suffer, only suffer, and they choke the dying to make them suffer even more, so they’ll suffer till their last breath, so that no good moment can ever exist.

I flow past, everything else remains. Man lives between earth and air, is made of water, and lives imprisoned like the river that has earth beneath it and air above.

Everyone bears their own prison, nothing changes, only habits.

The water embraced me. It would have seized me if I had let it, and—pushed forward and sucked under—I would have ended up in the place where nothing is comprehended.

I lowered myself gently into the water, hardly daring to breathe, always with the fear that, as I entered the water world, the air—finally rid of my nuisance—would begin to rage and be transformed into furious wind.