The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

In a certain sense you deny the existence of this world. You explain life as a state of rest, a state of rest in motion.

and in that recurring dream, I found myself trapped in some sort of gigantic game of which I was unfamiliar with the rules; lost in a labyrinthine town of dark and damp, criss-crossing streets, ambiguous characters of uncertain authority having no idea of why I was there nor what I had to do, and where the first sign of the beginning of understanding was the wish to die.

It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.