They were like two enemies in love with one another.
Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human
I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. An unattractive man. I think that my liver hurts.
And so in that very shame I suddenly begin a hymn.
Everything will come in due course, if you have the gumption to wait for it.
For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments.