Czech Literature Quotes

The tree of possibilities: life as it reveals itself to a man arriving, astonished, at the threshold of his adult life: an abundant treetop canopy filled with bees singing. And he thinks he understands why she never showed him the letters: she wanted to hear the murmur of the tree by herself, without him, because he, Jean-Marc, represented the abolition of all possibilities, he was the reduction, (even though it was a happy reduction) of her life to a single possibility.

Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

A person's destiny often ends before his death.