"You don't understand what is happening, you have never experienced anything like this, yet you know exactly that this is what they call the sweat of death. An ice-cold surface covers your inner heat. You see that nothing has changed around you and so you can still comprehend that the difference between your own perception and that of others is greater than you would normally expect. A sensational experience that concerns me and no one else.
"I was already at a great distance from them in the morning, and apparently I am at an even greater distance now. They are not burning with an inner heat covered by an ice shield.
"I really didn't imagine that I would be so close to absolute strangers, but now with eyes wide open in my death panic, I realized that, mutually adjusting to one other, we constantly measure our position against that of the others and check the position of others against our own."
— Peter Nadas, Own Death