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König's speech...wow. I can imagine the intensity with which an actor would deliver it.

"He took him by the arm, looking steadily into his eyes, with the look of a man in love." wow.

“There are those who need to write, those who need to dream, those who need to talk. … It’s all the same thing. The theater is not serious, but the bull-fight is, novels aren’t serious, but mythomania is.”

more dark stuff

It was neither true nor false, but real.

The roulette passage might be the best passage in this entire book so far.

Perhaps love is above all the means which the Occidental uses to free himself from man’s fate. . ..”

Don’t you consider it a stupidity characteristic of the human race that a man who has only one life should be willing to lose it for an idea?”

“It is very rare for a man to be able to endure—how shall I say it?—his condition, his fate as a man. . ..”