How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another? - Jean-Paul Sartre

They are young and well built, they have another thirty years ahead of them. So they don't hurry, they take their time, and they are quite right. Once they have been to bed together, they will have to find something else to conceal the enormous absurdity of their existence.

incident. “Nothing new.” I admire the way we can lie, putting reason on our side. Evidently, nothing new has happened, if you care to put it that way:

What's done at night belongs to the night. In the daytime you don't talk about it.