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But these were essentially the accoutrements that appeal to all people who are not actually rich but who want to look rich, though all they manage to do is look like each other:
He was weeping because of his own helpless state, and his loneliness, and other people’s cruelty, and God’s cruelty, and God’s non-existence.
‘It’s as if I had been going downhill when I thought I was going uphill. That’s how it was. In society’s opinion I was heading uphill, but in equal measure life was slipping
away from me … And now it’s all over. Nothing left but to die!
Life, a series of increasing sufferings, flies ever faster towards its end, the most terrible suffering.
‘What if I really have been wrong in the way I’ve lived my whole life, my conscious life?’
