It is not the case that we are born equal and that the conditions of life make our lives unequal, it is the opposite, we are born unequal, and the co… - Karl Ove Knausgård

I do not want anyone to get close to me, I do not want anyone to see me, and this is the way things have developed: no one gets close and no one sees me.

Indifference is one of the seven deadly sins, actually the greatest
of them all, because it is the only one that sins against life.

From my own childhood I remember only a handful of incidents, all of which I regarded as momentous, but which I now understand were a few events among many, which completely expunges their meaning, for how can I know that those particular episodes that lodged themselves in my mind were decisive, and not all the others of which I remember nothing?