The Death of Justina:


" I won't go to the common place symptoms of withdrawal, but I would like to point out that standing at my window in the evening watching the brilliant after light and the spread of darkness, I felt, though the lack of these humble stimulants, the force of some primitive memory in which the coming of night with its stars and its moon was apocalyptic."

This quote shows how he wonders what death is like instead of most people who have no curiosity or wonder of what happens after for fear of some thing undesirable they go into denial and choose not to think about it. He instead embraces his wonder and compares what will happen when the world ends to the night sky, which is also full of wonder and unanswered questions.


"When I abstain from sin it is more often a fear of scandal then a private resolve to improve on the purity of my heart."

This quote shows he is telling it like it is, he is not going to act as though the reason he doesn't do something wrong because he wants to be a better person, but he is afraid of what the consequences could be. he also shows a real person instead of putting on a act of someone who wants to be deep into making them self into a better person he knows what his real opinion to making a sin is and he embraces what he feels.


"I am obliged to contain myself in the role of a man who can do no good in spite of the piles of congratulatory mail that my eloquence sometimes brings in."

This quote shows how he gets no credit for what he does. If his work is wrong the blame goes to him, but if the work he does is great then the credit goes to someone else. no matter what he does he gets no applaud, just criticism. He is forced to fake his ease with the situation, there is no room for complaints. For the people he works with he is forced to put on a face and act like everything is ok, when deep down he knows that he is getting the shaft.