Children, you are the future,' he said, and today I realize he did not mean it the way it sounded. The reason children are the future is not that the… - Milan Kundera

الوحدة: غيابٌ عذبٌ للنظرات. في أحد الأيام مرضت زميلتاها وعملت وحدها في المكتب طييلة أسبوعين، لاحظت مندهشة عند المساء بأنها لا تكاد تشعر بالتعب. مما جعلها تدرك بأن النظرات حِمْلٌ مرهِق، قبلاتٌ تمتص الدماء، وأن مِسبَر النظرات هو الذي حَفَرَ التجاعيد على وجهها

But what had happened, had happened, and it was no longer possible to right anything.

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude toward those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.