Who doesn't desire his fathers death?

I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry.

... you can never be sure of what has passed between husband and wife or lover and mistress.

Pass us by, and forgive us our happiness

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality. At times monstrous images are created, but the setting and the whole picture are so truth-like and filled with details so delicate, so unexpectedly, but so artistically consistent, that the dreamer, were he an artist like Pushkin or Turgenev even, could never have invented them in the waking state. Such sick dreams always remain long in the memory and make a powerful impression on the overwrought and deranged nervous system.

I saw clear as daylight how strange it is that not a single person living in this mad world has had the daring to go straight for it all and send it flying to the devil! I...I wanted to have the daring...and I killed her.