It's funny, he said, have you ever thought that a girl's clothes cost more than the girl inside them?

Of course she had some pathetic illusions about herself or she would not be able to go on living.

A room? A nice room? A beautiful room? A beautiful room with bath? Swing high, swing low, swing to and fro...This happened and that happened... And then the days came and I was alone.

You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world.

...morbidly, attracted him to strangeness, to recklessnesss, even unhappiness.

If I was bound for hell, let it be hell. No more false heaven. No more damned magic.

Every word I say has chains round its ankles; every thought I think is weighted with heavy weights. Since I was born, hasn't every word I've said, every thought I've thought, everything I've done, been tied up, weighted, chained? And mind you, I know that with all this I don't succeed. Or I succeed in flashes only too damned well. ...But think how hard I try and how seldom I dare. Think - and have a bit of pity. That is, if you ever think, you apes, which I doubt.