I've been so ridiculous all my life that a little bit more or a little bit less hardly matters now.

I took the red dress down and put it against myself. 'Does it make me look intemperate and unchaste?' I said.

As it was in the beginning, ... is now, and ever shall be, world without end.

My life, which seems so simple and monotonous, is really a complicated affair of cafés where they like me and cafés where they don't, streets that are friendly, streets that aren't, rooms where I might be happy, rooms where I shall never be, looking-glasses I look nice in, looking-glasses I don't, dresses that will be lucky, dresses that won't, and so on.

Blot out the moon, Pull down the stars. Love in the dark, for we're for the dark So soon, so soon.

And I saw that all my life I had known that this was going to happen, and that I'd been afraid for a long time, I'd been afraid for a long time. There's fear, of course, with everybody. But now it had grown, it had grown gigantic; it filled me and it filled the whole world.

Next week, or next month, or next year I will kill myself. But I might as well last out my month's rent, which has been paid up.