“Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.”
“State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party and its adherents, and that state brings only ruin and bankruptcy to all.”
“The moral of the story is that grief, to the person of feeling, is a permanent wound, not a transient state.”
“I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.”
“The whole pleasure of being in a state of unknowing is that as long as you don’t know, all possible outcomes feel as if they are happening.”
“Boxers, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers.”