It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.

“Now, I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the spiteful an…”

“But how could you live and have no story to tell?”

“Yes, the laws of self-preservation and of self-destruction are equally powerful…”

“Αυτό μονάχα παραδεχόταν σαν έγκλημά του: το ότι δεν τ' άντεξε και πήγε κι ομολό…”