the teaching things

"...she's stuck to my skin like some sticky treacle or black mud" (13).

"And I want to accept my freedom without thinking what so many do, that existing is something for fools, a case of madness. Because that's what it seems like. Existing isn't logical" (12).

"I too, from one failure to the next have reduced myself to myself..." (10).

"No, it's not easy to write. It's as hard as breaking rocks. But sparks and splinters fly like flashing steel" (10).

"...we live exclusively in the present because it is always eternally today and tomorrow will be a today, eternity is the state of things at this very moment" (10).

"So don't expect stars in what's coming: nothing will twinkle, this is opaque material and by its very nature despised by everyone" (8).

"They don't even realize how easily substitutable they are and that they could just as soon drop off the face of the earth" (6).

"...one day I shall live here the life of a molecule with its possible bang of atoms" (5).

"If instead of a period it were followed by ellipses, the title would be open to possible imaginings of yours, perhaps even depraved and pitiless" (5).