Her sureness was based on the power to limit experience arbitrarily.
At college, and perhaps for a year afterwards, they had believed in literature, had believed in Beauty and in personal expression as an absolute end. When they lost this belief, they lost everything.
Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears.
Like a dead man, only friction could make him warm or violence make him mobile.
Crowds of people moved through the streets with a dream-like violence.
It's solitary drinking that makes drunkards.