Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side.

On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge.

Psychology lures even most serious people into romancing, and quite unconsciously.

I am a wicked man... But do you know, gentlemen, what was the main point about my wickedness? The whole thing, precisely was, the greatest nastiness precisely lay in my being shamefully conscious every moment, even in moments of the greatest bile, that I was not only not a wicked man but was not even an embittered man, that I was simply frightening sparrows in vain, and pleasing myself with it.

... you simply can't imagine what men will say!

Everywhere I am the object of an unbelievable esteem, the interest in me is, quite simply, tremendous.