Study of Beelzebub's Tales

23.312-3

“And so, my boy, being desirous after this distressful ‘Alstoozori’ of mine, or as your favorites would say, ‘sorrowful reflections,’ to clear up for myself the very essence of the cause also of this lamentable fact there, I understood at the end of my minute investigations, and became aware with all my being, that this abnormality there proceeds exclusively owing only to one remarkable aspect of the chief particularity of their strange psyche, namely, that particularity which has become completely crystallized and is an inseparable part of their common presences and which serves as a factor for the periodic arising in them of what is called the ‘urgent need to destroy everything outside of themselves.’