originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

Oh I've plenty of time, my time is entirely my own.

Therefore, in my incontrovertible capacity as plaintiff and defendant judge and accused, I condemn this nature, which has so brazenly and unceremoniously inflicted this suffering... since I am unable to destroy Nature, I am destroying myself, solely out of weariness of having to endure a tyranny in which there is no guilty party.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?

Don't think I'm talking nonsense because I'm drunk. I'm not a bit drunk. Brandy's all very well, but I need two bottles to make me drunk.

One must first learn to live oneself before one blames others.