Take one step to the side and it's all absurd.

I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me, but the room just filled up with mosquitoes.

Why don't you try to do without him, why don't you try to live alone? Do you really need his hands for your passion? Do you really need his heart for your throne? Do you need his labor for your baby? Do you need his beast for the bone? Do you need to hold a leash to be a lady? I know that you can make it, you can make it on your own.

Certainly within any decadent period, you would probably find the purest expressions of conviction, and I do not see that in many of the people I know.

... i didn't fall in love of course it's never up to you but she was walking back and forth and i was passing through

After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.

Suffering, violent suffering, seems to be something that corresponds with something that we experience.