What is flirtation? One might say that it is behavior leading another to believe that sexual intimacy is possible, while preventing that possibility … - Milan Kundera

Flirting is a promise of sexual intercourse without a guarantee.

Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. They are the questions with no answers. A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limit of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence.

Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love.

Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.