“(it was) beautiful, like so many senseless things.”

“I did not want to be taken for a fool the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse.”

“Night, which in Autumn seems to fall from the sky so suddenly, chilled us...”

“Dandies, who as you know - scorn all emotions as being beneath them, and do not believe, like that simpleton Goethe, that astonishment can ever be a proper feeling for the human mind.”

“Hatred needs scorn. Scorn is hatred's nectar!”

“I did not want to be taken for a fool – the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse.”

“Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow.”

“What did she think she understood about him? His gorgeous appearance was only the first layer, yet it was one that she savored now as if she had been hungry for it all of her life. wealth of lace ...”

“To define is to limit.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”

“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”

“The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deepe...”

“The irony of life is that those who wear masks often tell us more truths than those with open faces.”