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“I never sleep anymore except for late in the morning. Who would want to sleep inside a forest of the night teeming with questions? With my hands clasped behind my head, I lie awake in the night and think how happy I was, happy, and after all I did promise myself I’d never complain again, never accuse anyone, if I might be allowed to be happy just once.”

“I am the first perfect example of waste—extravagant, ecstatic and incapable of putting the world to any reasonable use, able to show up at the masked ball of society, or stay away like someone who has been detained, or has forgotten to make a mask, or can no longer fin his costume out of carelessness, and si one day will no longer be invited.”

“He'll win his case, because who wants anything from me, who needs me?