Excerpt

"What in the end does even the most fervent kiss mean, in which body and soul seem to mingle? What in the end does it mean that we traveled for months through strange countries together? What does it mean that I had a child with you? What does it mean that you cried in my lap over your affair? What does all that mean, since you still have left me alone...alone even in the moment when my body drank in the seed of life, which I carried in me for nine months, and which was destined, as our child, to live with strangers, and did not wish to remain in this world."

-from A Road into the Open by Alfred Schnitzler.

(beautiful passage...beautiful book)