Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.

The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.

That was the birth of sin. Not doing it, but KNOWING about it. Before the apple, [Adam and Eve] had shut their eyes and their minds had gone dark. Now, they peeped and pried and imagined. They watched themselves.

Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don't want any more of your meretricious persiflage.

The trains roared by like projectiles level on the darkness, fuming and burning, making the valley clang with their passage. They were gone, and the lights of the towns and villages glittered in silence.

He always ran away from the battle with himself. Even in his own heart's privacy, he excused himself, saying, "If she hadn't said so-and-so, it would never have happened.

It's autumn and everybody feels like a disembodied spirit then.