When we discern the unreality of everything, we ourselves become unreal, we begin to survive ourselves, however powerful our vitality, however imperious our instincts. But they are no longer anything but false instincts, and false vitality.

Years and years to waken from that sleep in which the others loll; then years and years to scape that awakening...

The problem of responsibility would have a meaning only if we had been consulted before our birth and had consented to be precisely who we are.

We had nothing to say to one another, and while I was manufacturing my phrases I felt that earth was falling through space and that I was falling with it at a …