“The rising and falling of your rib-cage, evidence of your continuing and patient existence.

The sounds never quite cease altogether, time never stops completely.

To want nothing.

Just to wait, until there is nothing left to wait for.

To wander and to sleep.

To let yourself be carried along by the crowds, and the streets.

To follow the gutters, the fences, the water’s edge.

To walk the length of the embankment, to hug the walls.

To waste your time.

To be without desire or resentment, or revolt.

In the course of time your life will be there in front of you.

A life without motion, without crisis, without disorder.

Day after day, season after season.

Something is going to start that will be without end.

your vegetable existence, your cancelled life”

- quotes from movie "The Man Who Sleeps" (1974) by Georges