The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro Quotes

“Millions of stars," he said, "millions of nebulae, fuck, millions of nebulae, and here we are fretting about electrodes applied to people's genitals.”
― Antonio Tabucchi, The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro

“What he said in effect was that once a man has allowed himself to commit murder, it won't be long before he thinks it a small matter to steal, and then he'll proceed to getting drunk and to not observing the Sabbath, then to behaving like a boor and breaking his word. Once he's on that slippery slope there's no knowing where he'll end, and there are many who have to blame their ruin on some murder or other to which they had paid little heed at the time.”
― Antonio Tabucchi, The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro