The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
Not everyone can be an orphan.
What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.
The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.