For in order to avoid having to deal with relative values, he had long since come to deny all purpose to the phenomenon of existence - it was more expedient and comforting.

Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustable well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very sma…

So she said banteringly: 'What's the unit of exchange in this different world of yours?'

Many days later another caravan was passing and a man saw something on top of the highest dune there. And when they went up to see, they found Outka, Mimouna a…

Is there not a sort of remorse that precedes sin? Was it remorse at the very fact that I existed?

I cannot believe in a paradise Glorious, undefiled, For gates all scrolled and streets of gold Are tales for a dreaming child. I am too lost for shame That it …

Life may have no meaning -- or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.