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It is always twilight in one’s cell, as it is always twilight in one’s heart.
Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.
‘Suffering is permanent, obscure, and dark And has the nature of infinity.’
It has come to me right out of myself, so I know that it has come at the proper time. It could not have come before, nor later. Had any one told me of it, I would have rejected it. Had it been brought to me, I would have refused it. As I found it, I want to keep it.
When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.
I was so typical a child of my age, that in my perversity, and for that perversity’s sake, I turned the good things of my life to evil, and the evil things of my life to good.
I filled my life to the very brim with pleasure, as one might fill a cup to the very brim with wine.
Pleasure for the beautiful body, but pain for the beautiful soul.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are some one else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
the great sins of the world take place in the brain:
