In the state I was in, if someone had come and told me I could go home quietly, that they would leave me my life whole, it would have left me cold: several hours or several years of waiting is all the same when you have lost the illusion of being eternal.


The Wall, and Other Stories (ed. 1948)


In the state I was in, if someone had come and told me I could go home quietly, that they would leave me my life whole, it would have left me cold:...

In the state I was in, if someone had come and told me I could go home quietly, that they would leave me my life whole, it would have left me cold:...

In the state I was in, if someone had come and told me I could go home quietly, that they would leave me my life whole, it would have left me cold:...

In the state I was in, if someone had come and told me I could go home quietly, that they would leave me my life whole, it would have left me cold:...