Status Updates From In the Sky

It isn't good for a man to distance himself too far from life, because life will have it's revenge.

Society is built on a single act: the destruction of the individual. Its institutions, its laws, even its customs - it could never pile them up so many and so strong if it weren't for this criminal task: killing the individual

"The sickness sort of melted my brain; when I tilted my head, I felt like a liquid was sloshing back and forth against the walls of my skull, like it was being shaken up in a bottle. All of my mental processes were on hold at a way station in the middle of nothingness."

I'm just going to keep reading Mirbeau translations because everything else I read is exhausting.