What? Corpus. Body. Corpse. Good idea the Latin. Stupifies them first. Hospice for the dying. They don't seem to chew it; only swallow it down.

He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him to compose in his mind from time to time a short sentence about himself containing a subject in the third person and a verb in the past tense.

I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description

Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?

Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.

Always see a fellows weak point in his wife.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another s soul.