"I was new to sorrow, but it did not the less alarm me."

"It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with."

"You are my creator, but I am your master."

"The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream; I sometimes doubted if indeed it were all true, for it never presented itself to my mind with the force of reality."

"To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death."