“I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well. ”
“All right, then, I thought: here I am in the bottom of a well.”
“...I am still librarian in your house, for I never was dismissed, and never gave up the office. Now I am librarian here as well.''But you have just told me you were sexton here!''So I am. It is much the same profession. Except you are a true sexton, books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb!”
“I am not my body. My body is nothing without me.”
“I am well in body though considerably rumpled up in spirit.”
“I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.”