“Her pain was so great that she could have screamed at the top of her voice. She had never known that one could suffer so much”

“Its like reproaching someone who has no ear for music because he's bored at a symphony concert. Is it fair to blame me because you ascribed to me qualities that I hadn't got? I never tried to decei...”

“He had not even the self-complacency that enables stupid people to accept their mediocrity with unction”