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"The way to innocence, to the uncreated and to God leads on, not back, not back to the wolf or to the child, but ever further into sin, ever deeper into human life."

"Look at this vestibule, with the araucaria and its wonderful smell. I always have to take a deep breath as I go by. What a fragrance there is here - the scent of superlative bougeois cleanliness, of care and precision. I don't know who lives here, but behind that door there must be a paradise of cleanliness and spotless mediocrity, of ordered ways, a touching and anxious devotion to life's little habits and tasks."

2 pages later: A la desaforada esperanza, sucedió, como es natural, una depresión excesiva.

Cuando se proclamó que la Biblioteca abarcaba todos los libros, la primera impresión fue de extravagante felicidad. (...) El universo estaba justificado, el universo bruscamente usurpó las dimensiones ilimitadas de la esperanza.