“But after some moments of comparison I saw quite clearly that my smile did not resemble that of humans: the fact is, I was not laughing.”

“I am son of man and woman, they tell me. That astounds me … I thought myself more!”

“lovely as the tremor of the hands in alcoholism”

“the chance meeting on a dissecting-table of a sewing-machine and an umbrella!”

“Love is not happiness.”