Ray Bradbury is a famous American writer who worked in the genres of science fiction, horror literature and psychological prose. Attention to his work is growing every year. You won’t meet a person with a Bradbury book anywhere: on the subway, in line at the clinic, on a break in the office or in a cafe. The writer’s work has settled in the minds of many; after reading one of his books, the need arises to quench their literary thirst with his other works. We offer you a selection of quotes from the most famous books of Ray Bradbury. Narrating about a fantastic world, the writer skillfully exposed reality.

The dystopia “Fahrenheit 451” brought the writer worldwide fame. Bradbury's popular works also include Dandelion Wine, The Martian Chronicles, Summer Morning, Summer Night and others. Many of his novels were filmed, and many of his stories were adapted into TV series. This means that Bradbury's work lives not only in literature, but also in cinema.

I don't think about death because I will always be here. This box with my films and shelves with my books convince me that I have a hundred or two years left. Death is a form of retribution with the cosmos for the wonderful luxury of being alive. (Ray Bradbury's Rules for Life)

You need to live, and not think about death.

“And I’m afraid to love you,” he continued. You will torture me again. (April Witchcraft)

If once love brought pain, then the fear of falling in love again simply appears.

We don't want to change the Future. Here in the Past we are uninvited guests. (A Sound of Thunder)

But in vain, because the future is in your hands and you have the opportunity to make it better.

Sometimes the Sun seems to me like a burning tree...
Its golden fruits soar in the hot air,
Like apples permeated with the juice of gravity,
Eradicated by the human race. (Golden apples of the sun)

The sun sets because it, too, gets tired of human gazes.

We are not obligated to anyone. We have one responsibility - to be happy. (Holidays)

This is perhaps our greatest responsibility.

Yes, when you remember your life, you see first of all the hands and what they did, and then the faces. They counted in their minds how many lids were lifted, how many doors were opened and closed, how many flowers were collected, how many dinners were prepared with hasty or slow - in accordance with character and habit - hands. Looking back at the past, they saw, as if a sorcerer’s dream come true: a whirlwind of hands, swinging doors, turning taps, flying brooms, animated rods. And the only sound was the rustle of fluttering pink hands, everything else was like a silent dream. (Embroidery)

The head thinks, the hands do, they embody all thoughts and ideas.

A child cannot live without attachments. You and your wife have allowed this room, this house, to take your place in their hearts. The children's room became a mother and father for them; it turned out to be much more important in their lives than their real parents. (Veld)

When you return home, your parents are not always there, but the room is always waiting...

Once you want it, you’ll hear anything you want. (Meadow)

If desired, even an enemy can talk about friendship.

The animal does not ask what the meaning of existence is. It lives. Lives for the sake of life. For him, the answer lies in life itself, in it there is joy and pleasure.

The meaning of life is to live and enjoy life.

And can one person be right when the whole world is sure that he is right? (And the moon still silvers the expanse with its rays)

Maybe, why not?)

Everything is always the same: one is waiting for the other, but he is not there. (Howler)

All life consists of someone waiting for someone.

Never ask a writer why he writes, where he is from, where he is going. When the time comes, he will say it himself. (April Witchcraft)

If a writer writes under a pseudonym, then this is necessary. The time will come when he will say his real name.

It's not every day that a person gets a second try. (Martian Chronicles)

And not every year, let alone every day.

We are just children in short pants, noisy and restless children, running around with our rocket and atomic toys. (Martian Chronicles)

In the modern world, adults are becoming more and more like children.

Dandelion wine

And yet, how nice it is to be at home! So warm and cozy. There is no better place on earth.

Home is the best place on the whole planet.

The people who made tennis shoes somehow know what boys want and what they need.

It's just a pity that no one knows what girls want.

Sometimes it begins to seem to me that people themselves are looking for death.

Only those who do not value life do this.

I have always believed that true love is determined by the spirit, although the body sometimes refuses to believe it.

Those who are close in spirit fall in love.

People always gossip about a woman, even if she is already ninety-five.

Such interesting creatures, these women, that people talk about them always and everywhere.

Be what you are, put an end to what you were.

Live in the present and don't carry the burden of the past.

Men are such a people - they never understand anything.

And yet they manage to invent a lot...)

There are a million such towns in the world. And each is just as dark, just as lonely, each is just as detached from everything, each has its own horrors and its own secrets.

And in these towns there are hundreds, thousands, or even millions of families, which also have their own horrors and their own secrets...

He was not one of those for whom a sleepless night is torment; on the contrary, when he could not sleep, he lay and indulged in thoughts to his heart's content: how does the giant clockwork mechanism of the universe work? Is this gigantic clock running out of power, or will it still have many, many millennia to count? Who knows! But on endless nights, listening to the darkness, he either decided that the end was near, or that this was just the beginning...

A night without sleep is not a reason to take sleeping pills, it’s a reason to think about the Universe...

How nice it is to sit on the veranda on a summer evening; how easy and calm; If only this evening would never end!

Summer evenings are so beautiful that they resemble a fairy tale.

Yes, summer consists of familiar rituals, each has its own usual time and its own usual place.

In the summer, everyone strives to go to a place where they can relax, where their soul feels free...

Adults and children are two different peoples, which is why they always fight among themselves. Look, they are not at all like us. Look, we are not at all like them.

The conflict between generations is inevitable, it has always been so.

If you don’t try something for a long time, you will inevitably forget how it happens.

Regularity develops into a habit, irregularity into a curiosity.

If you need something, get it yourself...

No one will go for you towards your goals.

From other books

A person in our time is like a paper napkin: they blow their nose into it, crumple it, throw it away, take a new one, blow it, crumple it, throw it away... ( 451° Fahrenheit)

People began to treat people like things, or even worse.

There are worse crimes than burning books. For example, don’t read them. (451° Fahrenheit)

Not being friends with literature is the biggest human mistake.

Don't try to judge books by their covers. (451° Fahrenheit)

There is also no need to draw conclusions from the first page...

“This is a flower without fragrance,” the old people noted. - Nowadays, many girls look like such flowers. If you touch them, they are made of paper... (Summer morning summer night)

The female sex is replete with beauty, if you look closely, it’s artificial...

You just need to grow up to be the kind of person who looks at the world with open eyes and is not deceived. In this case, even human treachery will seem funny, nothing more. When you understand that there is always a particle of evil in human nature, it will be easier for you to withstand. (Summer morning summer night)

How can you not be deceived by others if you even have to deceive yourself sometimes?

Some deliberately choose this fate: they, like crazy, crave for the view outside the window to change every week, every month, every year, but with age they begin to realize that they are just collecting worthless roads and unnecessary cities, no more solid than movie sets , and follow with their eyes the mannequins that flash in the shop windows outside the window of the slow night train. (Summer morning summer night)

Everyone chooses what they like.

A person hates what ruined him, what ruined his life. That's the way he's built. Unwise, perhaps, but such is human nature. (Smile)

If life has gone downhill, then how can you love what ruined it?

Take your time. You'll see: a smart person will appear who will patch it up (civilization). Mark my words. A man with a soul. (Smile)

Raymond Douglas "Ray" Bradbury - born August 22, 1920, Waukegan, Illinois, USA. American science fiction writer and prose writer. Author of the novels - “The Martian Chronicles”, “Fahrenheit 451”, “Death is a Lonely Business”, “Rising from the Dust”; stories - “Dandelion Wine”, “All Hallows’ Eve”, “From Here to Eternity”, etc.

Aphorisms, quotes, sayings, phrases - Bradbury Ray

• Writing is like living.
• Passion is incompatible with formulas.
• If you need something, get it yourself.
• You can't lose what you never had.
• We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
• Never question miracles when they happen.
• We are crazy. But it's good to be crazy all together.
• There are worse crimes than burning books. For example, don't read them.
• We need a society in which there is still room for roughness.
• Science fiction has always been and will always be a tale that teaches morality.
• Each time you need to jump off a cliff and grow wings on the way down.
• Madness is relative. It all depends on who locked whom in which cage.
• Optimism to me means only one thing - a chance to behave optimally.
• People ask me to predict the future, but all I want to do is prevent it.
• You need to study any science, master any technology, and then get rid of their “cons”.
• The first thing you learn in life is that you are a fool. The last thing you find out is that you are still the same fool.
• Students must be taught how to love life, how to love work, how to create to the limit of their capabilities.
• As a new invention fills the world, new laws are required to control its application.
• In trying to make life very good for everyone, we may end up making it very bad for everyone.
• They don't win wars at all. Everyone does nothing but lose, and whoever loses last asks for peace.
• Most young men are scared to death if they see that a woman has any thoughts in her head.
• Humanity has been given the opportunity to explore space, but it wants to engage in consumption: drink beer and watch TV series.
• There is no fruitful formula according to which science fiction, and indeed any literature in general, is written.
• Fiction is the architecture of our dreams, and our books will inspire our next generations of dreamers.
• When a person is seventeen, he knows everything. If he is twenty-seven and still knows everything, then he is still seventeen.
• Science fiction teaches us to think, and therefore make decisions, identify alternatives and lay the foundations for future progress.
• Science has violated our land, but it has sown it with love. And we are all natural products of this sowing and this brutal violence.
• The main thing is personal contacts. Stop communicating on the phone, and even more so on the completely idiotic Internet. It's a waste of time.
• The best science fiction is ultimately written by those who are dissatisfied with something in our society and express their outrage immediately and violently.
• It makes my eyes pop out when a person, having earned a million, buys an expensive Porsche car, gets security and stops greeting his neighbors.
• If we listened to our mind, we would never have a love relationship. We would never have had a friendship. We would never do this because we would be cynical.
• A real writer writes because he feels the need, necessity, thirst to write, because literature awakens in him the highest joy, passion, pleasure, delight.
• Anyone who uses his mind, his abilities, his genius, finally, to improve the world, gets every right to optimistic moods, but not blind ones, but based on activity and creation.
• Put me in a room with a pencil and a stack of white paper, and sit a hundred people in front of the most advanced computers, I can create something much more interesting than all of them combined.
• People are idiots. They did a lot of stupid things: they came up with costumes for dogs, the position of an advertising manager and things like the IPhone, without getting anything in return except a sour aftertaste. But if we developed science, explored the Moon, Mars, Venus. Who knows what the world would have been like then?
  

Wonderful incomparable language and poetic metaphors made Ray Bradbury a real writer. There are so many unusually deep thoughts in his prose that you want to make a quotation out of each one. Especially for you, we have selected the best, in our opinion, quotes and excerpts from the amazing works of this author.

Ray Bradbury is one of the most beloved science fiction writers. His novels and short stories are read by both adults and children. We fly with him to Mars, to the future, to the past. We drink from a green bottle a magic potion that restores youth. Once again we return to cozy Green Town, where eternal summer reigns and dandelion wine is stored in the cool underground. Although Bradbury considered himself a science fiction writer, he wrote in very different genres. In addition to science fiction, he has parables, realistic stories, and even fairy tales for adults. The Martian Chronicles, at first glance a fantastic story, is in fact not written about Mars, it is written about people, about their future, past and present. Books and the library occupy a central theme in Bradbury's work. The library in his works is not just a repository of information, but a refuge of Good forces and Light, capable of resisting Mister Darkness and the people of autumn. So, let's plunge into the world of Bradbury to hear how familiar quotes sound in the author's native language.

1. “You don"t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ― Ray Bradbury
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. It's enough to make people stop reading.

2. “I’m ALIVE. Thinking about it, noticing it, is new. You do things and don’t watch. Then all of a sudden you look and see what you’re doing and it’s the first time, really.” ― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine.
At first you live, you live, you walk, you do something, but you don’t even notice. And then suddenly you see: yeah, I’m living, walking, or breathing - this is truly the first time.

3. “Dandelion wine.” The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stopped.” ― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine.
Dandelion wine. These very words are like summer on the tongue. Dandelion wine - caught and bottled in summer.

4. “Hold summer in your hand, pour summer in a glass, a tiny glass of course, the smallest tingling sip, for children; change the season in your veins by raising glass to lip and tilting summer in.”― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine.

5. “Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are.” They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside the gift, know power, accept, and need not mention it. Why speak of time when you are Time, and shape the universal moments, as they pass, into warmth and action? How men envy and often hate these warm clocks, these wives, who know they will live forever.” ― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
Oh, what strange, wonderful watches these women are. They build nests in Time. They create flesh that preserves and binds eternity. They live by this gift, know their power and silently own it. Why talk about Time if you yourself are Time and clothe passing moments with warmth and action? How men envy and how they sometimes hate these warm hours, these wives who know that they will live forever.

6. “Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.” ― Ray Bradbury
Don't think. Reflection is the enemy of inspiration.

7. “First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys. Not that all months aren’t rare. But there be bad and good, as the pirates say. Take September, a bad month: school begins. Consider August, a good month: school hasn’t begun yet. July, well, July’s really fine: there’s no chance in the world for school. June, no doubting it, June’s best of all, for the school doors spring wide and September’s a billion years away.” ― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
First of all, let us note that it was October, a wonderful month for boys. This is not to say that the other months are bad, but as pirates say, there are bad months and there are good months. Take, for example, September is a bad month: school starts. Or August is a good month: the holidays are not over yet. July is good, July is simply wonderful: there is nothing in the whole world that even casually reminds us of school. June is undoubtedly the best: the beginning of summer, school is far away, and September is still a billion years away...

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• When a person is 17, he knows everything. If he is 27 and still knows everything, then he is still 17.
• There are worse crimes than burning books. For example, don't read them.
• The first thing you learn in life is that you are a fool. The last thing you find out is that you are still the same fool.
• Kindness and intelligence are properties of old age. At 20, a woman is much more interested in being heartless and frivolous.
• To survive, you need to stop asking what the meaning of life is. Life itself is the answer.
• They don't win wars at all. Everyone does nothing but lose, and whoever loses last asks for peace.

• Evil has only one power - the one we ourselves give it.
• When life is good, there is no need to argue about it.
• Love is when someone can give a person back himself.
• Open your eyes wider, live as greedily as if you will die in ten seconds. Try to see the world. He is more beautiful than any dream created in a factory and paid for with money. Don’t ask for guarantees, don’t seek peace - there is no such beast in the world.
• When you live next to people all the time, they don’t change one iota. You are amazed at the changes that have taken place in them only if you separate for a long time, for years.
• Looking for rabbits in hats is a lost cause, just like looking for a modicum of common sense in some people's heads.
• Smile, don't give misfortune pleasure.
• Human memory is like sensitive photographic film, and all we do throughout our lives is try to erase what is imprinted on it.
• Yes, we have enough free time. But do we have time to think?
• We have one responsibility - to be happy.
• He who has ceased to be surprised has ceased to love, and he who has ceased to love is considered to have no life, and whoever has no life is to be considered to have gone to the grave.
• And if living life to the fullest means dying sooner, so be it: I prefer to die quickly, but first taste more of life.
• It doesn't matter what exactly you do; It is important that everything you touch changes shape, becomes different from what it was before, so that a part of you remains in it. This is the difference between a person who simply cuts the grass on his lawn and a real gardener.
• Create something yourself that can save the world, and if you drown along the way, at least you will know that you swam to the shore.
• Books are just one of the containers where we store what we are afraid to forget.
• The real secret to creativity is to treat your ideas like cats - just make them follow you.
• Love is when you want to experience all four seasons with someone. When you want to run with someone from a spring thunderstorm under lilacs strewn with flowers, and in the summer you want to pick berries and swim in the river. In the fall, make jam together and seal the windows against the cold. In winter - to help survive a runny nose and long evenings...
• I experienced the simplest and greatest happiness in the world - I was alive.

Quotes from works: “Dandelion Wine”, “The Martian Chronicles”, “Fahrenheit 451”, “The Mechanisms of Joy”, “Summer Morning, Summer Night”, “Zen in the Art of Writing”, “Death is a Lonely Business”, “ Trouble is approaching”, “I sing the electric body!”

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of humanity. This is self-awareness, and everything that comes from self-awareness is lousy. You can't try to do something. You just have to do something. .

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The sad and at the same time the happiest lot of humanity is to endlessly measure the distances from where we are to where we want to be. - Ray Bradbury .

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Life is loneliness... At this moment, everyone faces their own, only their own task, and everyone must solve it themselves. You are all alone, understand this once and for all. .

#46239 Ray Bradbury

Everyone should leave something behind: a son, a book or a painting, a house you built, or at least a brick wall, or a pair of shoes you sewed, or a garden planted by your hands. Something that your fingers touched during life, in which your soul will find refuge after death. People will look at the tree or flower you have grown, and at that moment you will be alive... .

#46240 Ray Bradbury

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. .

#46241 Ray Bradbury

Ever since we learned to speak, we have asked one thing: What is the meaning of life? All other questions are absurd when death is behind us. But let us inhabit ten thousand worlds that revolve around ten thousand suns unfamiliar to us, and there will be no need to ask. There will be no limits to man, just as there are no limits in the universe. Man will be eternal like the universe. Individual people will die, as they always have died, but our history will stretch into the unimaginable distance of the future, we will know that we will survive in all future times and will become calm and confident, and this is the answer to that eternal question. We have been given life, and at the very least we must preserve this gift and pass it on to our descendants - ad infinitum. It's worth working hard for!... .

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In the years of your life - live. Don't give up on yourself. Don't walk around with a sour face. .

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Love is when both love each other. When one loves, it is a disease. .

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We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. .

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Some days it’s good to taste, and others to touch. .

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And yet, how nice it is to be at home! So warm and cozy. There is no better place on earth. .

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Order in life is not imposed, it is maintained every day, hour, minute, second. .

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The silence was broken only by the squawking of the sun, which was frying the skies. .

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She [my wife] and I share the same experience of life, we are united by millions of sensations. .

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It’s funny, of course, but a person must derive at least some pleasure from his work, otherwise what’s the point of it? .

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It’s always like this with women: they get married and take someone else’s name in order to disappear without a trace. .

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There are worse crimes than burning books. For example, don't read them. .

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But aren’t power and pleasure the essence of your new social order? .

#180775 Ray Bradbury

Sorry, I can’t, my reader, I’ll rip your skin off alive!.. .

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Gradually she got used to seeing men come and go, this tribe of childish giants, this army of clumsy fools, warriors who imagine that they conquer when you despise them, that they possess when you make fun of them, that they enjoy when you just give them a taste, this the barbarian horde, which you still wait for as long as life glimmers in you. .

#182626 Ray Bradbury

Life is a ridiculous bustle. It is like leaven that ferments for minutes, hours, years or centuries, but sooner or later stops fermenting. The big devour the small to maintain their fermentation. The strong devour the weak to maintain their strength. Those who are lucky eat more and wander longer than others - that’s all! .

#184716 Ray Bradbury

Why are you so good to me? “You’ve been kind to me for almost ten years,” Lawrence responded gloomily. - It may not be eleven, but it’s still not nothing. .

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Sometimes instincts and a negative attitude can take over. Later we deeply regret what we did. But we must not give up - Buddhas do not give up. We must learn from our own mistakes and move on. .

#184723 Ray Bradbury

Only death gives every moment its beauty and its horror. Only through death does time become alive. Why doesn't the LORD know this, the all-knowing god? Why does he threaten us with infinity, which means unbearable loneliness? .

#184726 Ray Bradbury

The fourteenth volume is entitled: “Can a reasonable person, taking into account the experience of past centuries, have even the slightest hope for a bright future for humanity?” It doesn’t take long to read the Fourteenth Volume. It consists of just one word and a period: “No.” .

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Were you afraid that you would be arrested, afraid that you would have to answer for what you did? - No, sir, I was afraid that I would have to answer for something I didn’t do. .

#193770 Ray Bradbury

People were given comprehensive instructions on how to destroy the creator. People have been taught that addiction is a good and a virtue. .

#193771 Ray Bradbury

The creators were not selfless. The secret of their power is that it is self-sufficient, self-determined and self-derived. The root cause, source of energy, life force, primary stimulus. The Creator did not serve anyone or anything. He lived for himself. And only by living for himself could he achieve that which constitutes the glory of humanity. This is the nature of accomplishment. .

#193772 Ray Bradbury

If you learn to control the soul of at least one person, you can do this with all of humanity. .

#193773 Ray Bradbury

When people don't use their ability to reason independently, they don't use their minds. To stop using reason means to stop life. .

#193774 Ray Bradbury

Peter, to do something for people, you need to be able to do it. And for this you need to love the work itself, and not the secondary consequences. Business, not people. Your own actions, not the object of your good deeds. I will be glad if people who need it will have a better life in the house that I built. But this is not the main motive of my work. And not the reason. And not a reward. .

#193775 Ray Bradbury

The fundamental problem of the modern world, said Eldsworth Toohey, is the misconception that freedom and coercion are incompatible. In order to solve the gigantic problems that are leading to the destruction of the modern world, it is necessary to clarify our views. Essentially, freedom and coercion are the same thing. Here's a simple example. Traffic lights limit your freedom - you cannot cross the street where you want. But this restriction is your freedom not to get hit by a car. If you were given a job and forbidden to leave it, this would infringe on your right to choose the field of activity that you like. But at the same time it would free us from the fear of unemployment. As soon as a new obligation is imposed on us, we automatically receive a new freedom. These two phenomena are inseparable. Only by accepting all kinds of restrictions do we gain true freedom. .

#193776 Ray Bradbury

I thought about people who say that happiness is impossible. And look how desperately they search for some joy in life, how they fight for it. Why is all living things doomed to suffer? By what right is a man required to live for any purpose other than his own joy? Everyone longs for it with all their being. And no one finds it. Strange, why? People whine that they see no meaning in life. There are some I especially despise. Those who are looking for some higher goal, or, in other words, the common good, and do not know what to live for. They constantly whine that they have to find themselves. This is all they talk about. It seems to be the disease of the century. Open any book. Tearful confessions everywhere. Confession became a worthy activity. And in my opinion, this is the most shameful thing. .

#193777 Ray Bradbury

You can't say "yes" without saying "I". There is no approval without an approver. In this sense, everything that your love is directed towards is yours. .

#193778 Ray Bradbury

I agree, I'm being disgusting. I break all laws of mercy. Being honest is an extremely cruel thing. .

#193779 Ray Bradbury

Typically, when I look at a prototype piece of art, I feel a twinge of atheism. But this time I cannot say that the sculptor has surpassed the Creator. .

#193780 Ray Bradbury

They say the worst thing you can do to a person is to kill his self-esteem. But this is not true. Self-esteem cannot be killed. It is much worse to kill claims to self-respect. .

#193781 Ray Bradbury

(part 2 of 2) But you never needed it. You wanted mirrors. People want to be surrounded only by mirrors. To reflect and be reflected. You know, like the meaningless infinity that you enter in a narrow mirrored corridor. This happens in very vulgar hotels. Reflection of reflections, echo of echo. Without beginning and without end. Without source and purpose. I gave you what you wanted. I became like you, like your friends, like most of humanity is trying so hard to be. I didn’t beat around the bush, content with book reviews to hide the emptiness of my own judgments, I said: I have no opinion. I didn’t borrow drawings to hide my creative impotence, I didn’t create anything. I did not say that equality is a noble goal, and unification is the main task of humanity. I just agreed with everyone. You call it death.