And in fact you're not like everyone else: you weren't ashamed just now to confess bad and even ridiculous things about yourself. Who would confess such things nowadays? No one, and people have even stopped feeling any need for self-judgment.

“Though I have said that I envy the normal man to the point of exasperation, yet…”

“Of course my jokes are in poor taste, inappropriate, and confused; they reveal …”

“Here, perhaps, is the only man in the world who, were you to leave him alone an…”

“we are all divorced from life, we are all cripples, every one of us, more or le…”