“A dictionary resembles the world more than a novel does, because the world is not a coherent sequence of actions but a constellation of things perceived. It is looked at, unrelated things congregat...”

“In the midst of this utopia, which only your fellow lone voyagers would perceive, you used to transgress societys rules unknowingly, and no one would hold you accountable for it. You would mistaken...”

“You were said to have died of suffering. But you died because you searched for happiness at the risk of finding the void.”

“You did not fear death. You stepped in its path, but without really desiring it: how can one desire something one doesnt know? You didnt deny life but affirmed your taste for the unknown, betting t...”

“Your life was a hypothesis. Those who die old are made of the past. Thinking of them, one thinks of what they have done. Thinking of you, one thinks of what you could have become. You were, and you...”

“You were not surprised to find yourself ill adapted to the world, but it did surprise you that the world had produced a being who now lived in it as a foreigner. Do plants commit suicide? Do animal...”

“I do not know where to go, but I have been on the road.”

“While she was in transit, being unattached was exhilarating, but the moment she stopped, so did the high.”

“The natural tenderness and delicacy of our constitution, added to the many dangers we are subject to from your sex, renders it almost impossible for a single lady to travel without injury to her ch...”