I am walking like a bewitched corpse, with the certainty of being eaten by the infinite, of being annulled by the only existing Absurd.

There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell.

In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed-- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted.

The people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.

Once upon a midnight dreary

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.

There was a discordant hum of human voices! There was a loud blast as of many trumpets! There was a harsh grating as of a thousand thunders! The fiery walls rushed back! An outstretched arm caught my own as I fell, fainting, into the abyss. It was that of General Lasalle. The French army had entered Toledo. The Inquisition was in the hands of its enemies.