And yet I am convinced that man will never give up true suffering- that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole root of consciousness.

It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that everyone was forsaking me and going away from me.

Can a man of perception respect himself at all?

The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the miraculous also.

Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life.

Just take a look around you: Blood is flowing in rivers and in such a jolly way you’d think it was champagne.

I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease.