QUOTE : First the mania for confession,<br />then the mania for clarity,<br />issued from you, dark, hypocritical<br />sentiment! Let them now<br />condemn my every passion, let them<br />drag me through the mud, call me twisted,<br />foul pervert, dilettante, perjurer;<br />you keep me apart, give me life’s assurance:<br />I burn at the stake, play the card of fire<br />and win: I win this small,<br />vast possession, my infinite,<br />miserable pity<br />which makes even righteous anger my friend.<br />And I can do this because I’ve endured you too long!