I saw through to the last sign and symbol, but I could not read her face. I could see only the eyes shining through, huge, fleshy-like luminous beasts, as though I were swimming behind them in the electric effluvia of her incandescent vision.

Remorse is impotence; it will sin again. Only repentance is strong - it can end everything.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

Prayers are offered up daily - without charge... Refreshments are served when demanded.

I read to be taken out of myself, to become ecstatic.

I thought, when I came upon her, that I was seizing hold of life... Instead I lost hold of life completely. I reached out for something to attach myself to - and I found nothing. But in reaching out, in the effort to grasp, to attach myself, left high and dry as I was, I nevertheless found something I had not looked for - myself.

Your whole past is like a long sleep which would have been forgotten had there been no memory, but remembrance is there in the blood and the blood is like an ocean in which everything is washed away but that which is new and more substantial even than life - reality.