Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?

The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.

marriage is usually considered the grave, and not the cradle of love.

I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed myself to be borne away by them, and forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy.

There is love in me the likes of which you've never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape. If I am not satisfied int he one, I will indulge the other.

Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!

I see by your eagerness, and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be in formed of the secret with which I am acquainted. That cannot be.