You are so vulnerably haunting. Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible.

One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.

If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

What a fate: to be condemned to work for a firm where the slightest negligence at once gave rise to the gravest suspicion! Were all the employees nothing but a bunch of scoundrels, was there not among them one single loyal devoted man who, had he wasted only an hour or so of the firm's time in the morning, was so tormented by conscience as to be driven out of his mind and actually incapable of leaving his bed?

So then you’re free?’ ‘Yes, I’m free,’ said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom.

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.