An impostor, a 'humbug,' conscious of being so and therefore a self-spectator, is necessarily more advanced in knowledge than a steady mind full of merits and all of a piece.

When you know yourself well and do not despise yourself utterly, it is because you are too exhausted to indulge in extreme feelings.

No longer wanting to be a man:dreaming of another form of failure.

A relief bordering on orgasm at the notion that one will never again embrace a cause, any cause...