To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of innocence, an act of aggression, a repetition of our Fall?
We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.
Glory - once achieved, what is it worth?
Everything is pathology, except for indifference.
No position is so false as having understood and still remaining alive.
If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.