Anonymous > Quotes > Quotable QuoteI see life as a roadside inn where I have to stay until the coach from the abyss pulls up. I dont know where it will take me, because I dont know anything. I could see this inn as a prison, for Im compelled to wait in it; I could see it as a social centre, for its here that I meet others. But Im neither impatient nor common. I leave who will to stay shut up in their rooms, sprawled out on beds where they sleeplessly wait, and I leave who will to chat in the parlours, from where their songs and voices conveniently drift out here to me. Im sitting at the door, feasting my eyes and ears on the colours and sounds of the landscape, and I softly sing for myself alone wispy songs I compose while waiting.
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