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Take her in my arms? What good would it do? I can do nothing for her; she is as solitary as I.

"I am sure that fifteen minutes would be enough to reach supreme self-contempt. No thank you, I want none of that."

"Something has happened to me, I can’t doubt it any more. It came as an illness does, not like an ordinary certainty, not like anything evident. It came cunningly, little by little; I felt a little strange, a little put out, that’s all. Once established it never moved, it stayed quiet, and I was able to persuade myself that nothing was the matter with me, that it was a false alarm. And now, it’s blossoming."

"Perhaps it is impossible to understand one’s own face. Or perhaps it is because I am a single man? People who live in society have learned how to see themselves in mirrors as they appear to their friends. I have no
friends. Is that why my flesh is so naked? You might say—yes you might say, nature without humanity."