Unwitting Street Quotes

“I know this because I like to go for walks at night. You and sleep, evidently, are not friends. When everyone has done thinking their daytime thoughts and uncoupled their cerebral hemispheres, you continue to follow your thoughts. So do I. There are only two of us. Among the many multitudes of sworn brotherhoods, there is one called: brothers-in-candles. An old custom. When people didn’t have the quarter-kopeck to buy a votive candle, they would buy one together, and hold it together, fingers touching fingers. Well then, you and I are brothers-in-candles. Friends in never-dimming thoughts. Although we don’t know each other, have never laid eyes on one another, and likely never will.”
― Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, Unwitting Street

“What, you may ask, makes me drink? A sober attitude toward reality.”
― Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, Unwitting Street

“We knock on people’s souls, and they respond only with silence.”
― Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, Unwitting Street

“They must live—no matter how hard it was—but for lack of anything else—live they must.”
― Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, Unwitting Street

“When the Thinker placed a clean sheet of paper before the Thought, it jumped back: "I won't be put into letters!" But the old man went about his business. The struggle was brief, albeit hard-fought.”
― Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, Unwitting Street