"It's the wanting to know that makes us matter."
- Tom Stoppard, Arcadia

"Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity."

"And do you accept the idea that there is no explanation?"

-Julio Cortazar, Hopscotch

“. . . accused men are always the most attractive.”
–Franz Kafka , The Trial

“…by listening to the D major, I can feel the limits of what humans are capable of - that a certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.”

“…in everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward any more. And when we reach that point all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.”

- Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

"He delighted, as always, in the scene on the beach, the sight of sophisticated society giving itself over to a simple life at the edge of the element."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice