Existence alone had never been enough for him; he had always wanted more. Perhaps it was only from the force of his desires that he had regarded himself as a man to whom more was permitted than to others.

The perpetration of a crime is accompanied by illness!

In a way there's only a fine shade of difference between the healthy and the deranged.

Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people.

The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.