If he has a last thought, if there is time for a last thought, it will simply be, So this is what a last thought is like. - J. M. Coetzee

If there were a way of putting an end to himself by some purely mental act he would put an end to himself at once, without further ado. His mind is full of stories of people who bring about their end - who methodically pay bills, write goodbye notes, burn old love letters, label keys, and then, once everything is in order, don their Sunday best and swallow down pills they have hoarded for the occasion and settle themselves on their neatly made beds and compose features for oblivion. Heroes all of them, unsung, unlauded. I am resolved not to be of any trouble.

Your stay in the camp was merely an allegory, if you know that word. It was an allegory — speaking at the highest level — of how scandalously, how outrageously a meaning can take up residence in a system without becoming a term in it.

Craniul,si apoi temperamentul:cele mai solide parti din corpul omenesc.