I can't sleep,' he said. 'Let me lie with my head on your silver breast.
I am empty of everything. I am empty of everything but the thin, frail ghosts in my room.
And I saw that all my life I had known that this was going to happen, and that I'd been afraid for a long time, I'd been afraid for a long time. There's fear, of course, with everybody. But now it had...
Morbidly, attracted him to strangeness, to recklessnesss, even unhappiness.
You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world...
Very soon she'll join all the others who know the secret and will not tell it. Or cannot. Or try and fail because they do not know enough. They can be recognized. White faces, dazed eyes, aimless gest...
Poverty is the cause of many compromises.
Wasn't it quite difficult being a wicked girl? Even more difficult than being a good one?
Something came out from my heart into my throat and then into my eyes.
Rain, forever raining. Drown me in sleep. And soon.
What you take to be hyprocrisy is sometimes a certain caution, sometimes genuine, though ponderous, childish, sometimes a mixture of both.
The musty smell, the bugs, the lonliness, this room, which is part of the street outside-this is all I want from life.
It's so easy to make a person who hasn't got anything seem wrong.
Can I help it if my heart beats, if my hands go cold?
Would you like a whiskey?' I say. 'I've got some.'(That's original. I bet nobody's ever thought of that way of bridging the gap before.)
Why did you love her?'
Today I must be very careful, today I have left my armor at home.
The prayer ended, 'May Almighty God defend us.' And God who is indeed mysterious, who had made no sign when they burned Pierre as he slept - not a clap of thunder, not a flash of lighting - mysterious...
Some must cry so that others may be able to laugh the more heartily. Sacrifices are necessary...
Saved, rescued, fished-up, half-drowned, out of the deep, dark river, dry clothes, hair shampooed and set. Nobody would know I had ever been in it.