“We must act out passion before we can feel it.”
“But no: he was empty, he was confronted by a vast anger, a desperate anger, he saw it and could almost have touched it. But it was inert - if it were to live and find expression and suffer, he must lend it his own body. It was other people's anger. "Swine!" He clenched his fists, he strode along, but nothing came, the anger remained external to himself.”
“Oh, what a nuisance you are! I'm giving you my mouth, my arms, my whole body - and everything could be so simple...My trust! I haven't any to give, I'm afraid, and you're making me terribly embarrassed. You must have something pretty ghastly on your conscience to make such a fuss about my trusting you.”
“Night is falling: at dusk, you must have good eyesight to be able to tell the Good Lord from the Devil.”
“You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.”
“We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.”