"The greatest cunning of the devil is to persuade you that he does not exist."

"I am dirty, Felice, I am filthy, and I have to confess it to you. I have written to you so many lies, and have hidden away so much from you."

"The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than the rationalization of a man who wants to rest for a moment."

"I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, which is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. My poor, dear Milena, you are only a woman, you are not a man, you do not understand that for a man there is alw…"

"I am a book that has not been written."