Margins

Sometimes I have the impression that everything that happens in my life comes from a marginal, ominous place no one else knows, a place that has always been meant only for me. I’ve grown so used to the idea that it seems to me I enjoy my brief moments of happiness and well-being with an intensity unknown to other mortals. Those moments restore me, they are necessary to me, and each time they occur I feel as if the world were just beginning. 

From Alvaro Mutis’s Amirbar, in The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll