“It's not my fault! It can't make any difference, can it?" "You understand nothing. You are a destroyer, a black spiteful destroyer. You are the sort of person who goes around in a dream smashing things . . . You aren't really here at all.”
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“Of course you don't know yourself, lucky old you. I just know myself too bloody well.”
“(The false god punishes, the true god slays.)”
“Here memory was simply a cold cloud to be shuddered at.”
“It was a voyage into the absurd.”
“I know her by intuition as if she were inside my head.”
“I've never had any luck, Brad. I don't even hope for any any more.”