Sensuality is the total mobilization of the senses: an individual observes his partner intently, straining to catch every sound. - Milan Kundera

"Love is a battle," said Marie-Claude, still smiling. "And I plan to go on fighting. To the end."
Love is a battle?" said Franz. "Well, I don't feel at all like fighting." And he left."

To die; to decide to die; that's much easier for an adolescent than for an adult. What? Doesn't death strip an adolescent of a far larger portion of future? Certainly it does, but for a young person, the future is a remote, abstract, unreal thing he doesn't really believe in.

The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order.