“His feelings are warm, but I can imagine them rather changeable.”
“they stand at his back on the cold - he can feel them there now - like new gods. like a fresh pantheon waiting to be born.It was warm, by the fire.”
“The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature.”
“Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.”
“And what hurts him most is the gleam of peace he'd had: he would rather imagine his wife tortured in a secret cell than imagine that she chose to not love them anymore.”
“Before going back to sleep I imagined (I saw) a plastic universe, changeable, full of wondrous chance, an elastic sky, a sun that suddenly is missing or remains fixed or changes its shape.”