Your very eyes. How they have always been for me the command to obey, the inviolable and beautiful commandment. No, no, I'm not telling lies. Your appearance in the doorway!... You have been my body's health. Whenever I have read a book, it was you I was reading, not the book, you were the book. You were, you were.

Jakob von Gunten (ed. New York Review of Books, 2014) - ISBN: 9781590178188