The First Man

"...I realized that there is a fatality in human natures..."

"I've learned less about people, since their destiny interests me more than their reactions, and destinies tend to repeat each other."

"Clumsiness and disorder reveal too much of the secrets closest to our hearts; we also betray them through too careful a disguise."

"For being consists of being able to do everything at the same time...the great and simple images in whose presence his heart was first opened."

The first man, in the last light; remembering the first light, he became the last man. The light everywhere around you, and yet your love of bare interiors, no sign of your presence.

At the time of Judgement it is said that the unbelievers will ask for another day, another hour, to make amends, to change what has come to pass, as if we could live in all times. "If I had another day I'd be true to myself, and then return". But this will be denied them. Is it so very different for the believers? If you had another hour in the presence of loved ones, would you leave? What is destiny but a return to our origins? Everything will be the same, and everything will be different. Like a broken circle.