know very well that I don’t want to do anything: to do something is to create existence — and there’s quite enough existence as it is. - Jean-Paul Sartre

إن القاتل يخلِّد الوضع الثقيل الذي ارتكب جريمته من أجل إنهائه، وبدلًا من أن يتخلص من العلاقة الكريهة بينه وبين القتيل، إذ بالقتيل وقد أخذ مفتاح تلك العلاقة معه إلى القبر، وإذا الكراهية تتحول بالقتل إلى شعور بالإحباط دائم.

Aegistheus, the kings have another secret.... Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the Gods can do nothing against that man. It is a matter for men to handle amongst themselves, and it is up to other men — and to them alone — to let him flee or to destroy him.

Tonight I love you in a way that you have not known in me: I am neither worn down by travels nor wrapped up in the desire for your presence. I am mastering my love for you and turning it inwards as a constituent element of myself. This happens much more often than I admit to you, but seldom when I’m writing to you. Try to understand me: I love you while paying attention to external things. At Toulouse I simply loved you. Tonight I love you on a spring evening. I love you with the window open. You are mine, and things are mine, and my love alters the things around me and the things around me alter my love.