Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.

You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.

Let it not be a beautiful face,' I thought, 'but to make up for that, let it be a noble, an expressive, and, above all, an extremely intelligent one.

I agree that two times two makes four is an excellent thing; but if we are dispensing praise, then two times two makes five is sometimes a most charming little thing as well.

Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!

Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then... Well, then I woke up.

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