He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place. - James Joyce

If he had smiled why would he have smiled? To reflect that each one who enters imagines himself to be the first to enter whereas he is always the last term of a preceding series even if the first term of a succeeding one, each imagining himself to be first, last, only and alone whereas he is neither first nor last nor only nor alone in a series originating in and repeated to infinity.

What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction?

People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.