“We know our lives are chaotic, but we insist that everything happen in an orderly way and be logically conceived.”

“I was pushing myself to extremes in order to discover my many selves.”

“So this is insanity. How interesting. What happens next?”

“I wondered whether the loss of one's sight would deprive a person also of the memory of everything that he had seen before. If so, the man would no longer be able to see even in his dreams. if not, if only the eyeless could still see through their memory, it would not be too bad. The world seemed to be pretty much the same everywhere, and even though people differed from one another, just as animals and trees did, one should know fairly well what they looked like after seeing them for years. I had lived only seven years, but I remembered a lot of things. when I closed my eyes, many details cam back still more vividly. who knows, perhaps without his eyes the plowboy would start seeing an entirely new, more fascinating world.”

“Living is an arbitrary matter and I have every right to renounce it.”

“Our language has lost its ability to convey the spontaneous.”

“When people claim to know who I am, I can no longer act freely.”