a man possessed with peace is always smiling - Milan Kundera

Fortunately women have the miraculous ability to change the meaning of their actions after the event.

"You are beautiful," he said, "But I will have to leave you."

All human beings have always aspired to an idyll, to that garden where nightingales sing, to that realm of harmony where the world does not rise up as a stranger against man and man against other men, but rather where the world and all men are shaped from one and the same matter. There, everyone is a note in a sublime Bach fugue, and anyone who refuses to be one is a mere useless and meaningless black dot that need only be caught and crushed between thumb and finger like a flea.