“I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.”
“Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant; it was thefact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want”
“I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me. A nearby field, a ray of sunlight, a little bit of calm along with a bit of bread, not to feel oppressed by the knowledge that I exist, not to demand anything from others, and not to have others demand anything from me - this was denied me, like the spare change we might deny a beggar not because we're mean-hearted but because we don't feel like unbuttoning our coat.”
“I deny morality as I deny alchemy.”
“I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.”
“Automatically, like all healthy, normal beings, I deny the existence of horror...”