"-I learned that we need not die in our death, but live in our death, and that such death is not in vain or useless, because that way the bitter death comes alive and what ever lives it's useless and I learned that if I want to see the end it is not there to where I have to look, but towards the center, and this is where the heart is. Yes, so strong is the center beyond the beginning and end, entering what is dark and what men fear because there they see nothing but nothingness and darkness... But when the center has grown casts its light beyond the edges and external borders and then it makes no difference between what happened and what comes; We can look beyond and see those who died and talk to them, and they live in us."
Herman Broch - The Curse (1934-1935) - Alianza Editorial