God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.

There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.

It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.

Beware of those who say: "I know this too well to be able to express it." For if they cannot do so, this is because they don't know it or because out of laziness they stopped at the outer crust.

So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time.

I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.

Give up the tyranny of female charm.