Status Updates From Three Novellas

We ourselves do not see ourselves, it is never possible for us to see ourselves.

When we imagine ourselves to be in a state of mind, no matter what, we are in that state of mind, and thus in that state of illness which we imagine ourselves to be in, in every state that we imagine ourselves in.

Even when nothing suggested one or more causes of restlessness, when nothing suggested the least restlessness, Karrer was restless because he had the feeling (the sense) that he was restless, because he had reason to, as he thought.

If I am alone, I want to be with people, if I'm with people I want to be alone, this condition has lasted for decades. Sometimes I detest them, sometimes I detest myself for being among them...

Human beings are probably constructed for a world quite different from their own.

The word crows and the cawing of the crows and the downward swoop of the crows and the black of the crows, that is all you feel . . .

The tragedy, the tragedy of tragedy, which has always been but an attempt at tragedy.

...our timid, fearful world was no longer capable of outwitting time and its machinery...wherever we looked, it was coming to grief, everywhere and in everything and everybody, in the cities as well as in the country, in these times which people would have preferred to sleep through, if that were possible, over such long stretches of desolation...