for the idea was by no means so stupid as it seems now
that it has failed.... (Everything seems stupid when it fails.)

“If I had a reader and he had read all I have written so far of my adventures, t…”

“Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to …”

“Human nature is not taken into account, it is excluded, it's not supposed to ex…”

“Just a glass of beer, a piece of dry bread—and in one moment the brain is stron…”