"Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it."

"I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other."

"Do you mark my words; I have learned the language of despair: I have it all by heart, for I am Despair; and a strange being am I, joyous, triumphant Despair…."

"When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?"

"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change."