“I perceive that marble conceals a multitude of sins.”

“Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.”

“I want God, I want poetry, I want danger, I want freedom, I want sin.”

“I don't want comfort. I want poetry. I want danger. I want freedom. I want goodness. I want sin.”

“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”

“Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe.”

“I used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people. Conquering an unknown province of knowledge. Getting the better of a problem. Forcing ideas to associate or come apart. Bullying recalcitrant words to assume a certain pattern. All the fun of being a dictator without any risks and responsibilities.”