To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.

Writing is like paying myself a formal visit.

I don't know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don't know what to think or what I am.

I always live in the present. I don’t know the future and no longer have the past. The former oppresses me as the possibility of everything, the latter as the reality of nothing.

THIRD WATCHER Let her speak. Don't interrupt. She knows words that mermaids taught her...I'm falling asleep in order to hear her...Go on, sister, go on...My heart aches because I wasn't you when you dreamed at the seashore.

If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.

pg 9, "The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is the oldest tax levied on the intelligence.