There is beauty everywhere on earth, but there is greater beauty in those places where one feels that sense of ease which comes from no longer having to put off one’s dreams until some improbable future – a future inexorably shrinking away; where the fear that has pervaded one’s life suddenly vanishes because there is... nothing to be afraid of.
Josef Škvorecký (1986). “The engineer of human souls: an entertainment on the old themes of life, women, fate, dreams, the working class, secret agents, love and death”, Picador
