"I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow."

"I have a horror of life, but I cling to it."

"I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human integrity has been ruined by the fall, and that I am a member of the ruined species."

"Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence."

"The highest intellect is but a shadow of the lowest intuition."