Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.

It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.

I’m doing badly, I’m doing well; whichever you prefer.

I am free and that is why I am lost.

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.