Life if curious when reduced to its essentials

Your red dress,’ she said, and laughed. But I looked at the dress on the floor and it was as if the fire had spread across the room. It was beautiful and it reminded me of something I must do. I will remember I thought. I will remember quite soon now.

The musty smell, the bugs, the lonliness, this room, which is part of the street outside-this is all I want from life.

Sometimes the Earth trembles; sometimes you can feel it breathe.

She’ll have no lover, for I don’t want her and she’ll see no other.

I am the only real truth I know.

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