you are the knife i turn inside myself; that is love, that, my dear, is love - Franz Kafka

Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations.

I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.

Self-control is something for which I do not strive. Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.