Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.

It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.

Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative, but wishes. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you who you are.

I should think I'm going to be a perpetual student.

My mistress has come home; at last I've seen her. Now I'm ready to die.

A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm.

Not everyone knows how to be silent or to leave in good time. It happens that even people of good breeding fail to notice that their presence provokes in the weary or preoccupied host a feeling akin to hatred, and that this feeling is tensely concealed and covered up with lies.