"It is strange, but true; for truth is always strange, stranger than fiction."

"If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!"

"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."

"I have often thought that the world is a vast prison, where the greater part of mankind are condemned to wear their fetters."

"Anguish and despair had penetrated into the core of my heart; I bore a hell within me, which nothing could extinguish."