With discipline, obedience and submission, my Dearly Beloved Husband will once again guide me through the new year with His firm hand.

With a firm hand, demanding but caring, my Dearly Beloved Husband will continue to give me safety and security in the new year.

i know for sure: in the new year, my Dearly Beloved Husband will continue to demand what He needs from me. i hope that i will be able to meet His expectations.

There's the majority of people who are what I call the "meek." They're the kind that make up the average society. The kind who don't stand out or get noticed. These are your clerks, your waiters, your factory workers, and all the rest. People who work, and get paid their meager share of the wealth, and who never complain about it. The kind of people you can trust to always act the way you expect them to. They're good, obedient children.

The second kind are the "selfish." These are the people who live only for themselves, and try to get what they can from the system. You can always count on them to act in their own self-interest. They're the ones who will do something nasty behind your back if they think it'll get them a leg up. You can't ever really trust them, but you can depend on them.

Then there are the "dangerous." This is the very smallest group. These are the ones you find at the top of society, and also at the bottom. These are the kind who have no qualms about killing, if they feel like it. And that's why they can reach the top. They'll betray, backstab, and kill their way to the top. That's how they become famous, or rich, or whatever. Then when they die, they usually die young and violent.

The fourth kind are the "weak." I put these with the meek, because that's where you find most of them. The difference is that the weak know they're powerless, while the meek think they have some power. The weak have the will to fight, but no real strength. They'll get trampled. But every now and then one of the weak rises to the top and becomes the dangerous.

I constantly sensed in myself a great many elements working in the opposite direction. I felt they were just swarming inside me, these opposing elements, and I knew that they had been swarming inside me all my life and were insisting on being let out. But I wouldn't let them out — wouldn't let them, would not let them out quite deliberately. They tormented me to the point of making me ashamed of myself, having convulsions, till I got tired of them in the end — goodness, how tired!

The world looks stagnant yet it is moving; it looks promising yet it is deceiving.

Everyone is obsessed with physical appearance, but remember: true beauty lies in your boundless, untamed fury at the absurdity of existence.