“My heart grew sombre with grief, and wherever I looked I saw only death. My own country…”

“The evil in me was foul, but I loved it. I loved my own perdition and my own faults, not…”

“I did not know that evil is nothing but the removal of good until finally no good remains.”

“No one can lose you, my God, unless he forsakes you. And if he forsakes you, where is he…”