“Unhappiness is caused when we cannot let go of our memories.”

“For society, marriage is undoubtedly beneficial. But the burdens of civilized morality are too heavy for many to bear.”

“The pity of it was that this discovery, if such it was, now seemed so stale, so profitless to me. What good was it? What good did thinking ever do?”

“A woman's love for a man is ha;f animal passion and half hate. The more a woman loves a man, the more she hates him. If a man is worth having, he must be a woman's superior; if he is her superior, ...”

“Satisfying a savage instinct is incomparably more pleasurable than satisfying a civilized one.”

“What i literally cannot describe is the hollowness in my lungs when i am out of her presence. It is as if i were dying from the want of her.”

“He was, however, unable to give much prolonged or continuous thought to anything that evening , or to concentrate on any one idea; and anyway, even if he had been able to, he would not have found h...”

“Nature can counsel nothing but crime.”

“A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.”

“She sat in a corner warm with sunlight, a copy of Home Notes open unread upon her knee, and watched the green meadows flying past while the business men in the carriage talked about news in the pap...”

“I like a good murder that can't be found out. That is, of course it is very shocking, but I like to hear about it.”