“There is no guilt in feelings ever.”

“I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Th...”

“She was very beautiful and he felt he loved her. She was not beautiful as a state or a picture is beautiful; she was beautiful as a meadow across which the wind blows. It was life that pulse...”

“It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.”

“It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.”

“Sometimes I used to think that one day i should wake up, and all that had been would be over. forgotten, sunk, drowned. Nothing was sure - not even memory.”

“- Srećna sam! Stojao sam i gledao je. Bila je to samo jedna reč, ali reč koju još nikada nisam ovako čuo. Poznavao sam žene, ali su to uvek bili prolazni susreti i doživljaji... Jedan čas zb...”

“- Никогда, Робби, не стремись знать слишком много! Чем меньше знаешь, тем проще живется. Знание делает человека свободным, но и несчастным. Давай выпьем за наивность, за глупость и все, что...”