“Through their kisses and caresses they experienced a joy and wonder the equal of which has never been known or heard of. But I shall be silent...; for the rarest and most delectable pleasures are those which are hinted at, but never told.”

“Potem dobywa nagiego i przetrzymawszy chwilkę w dłoni wkłada z powrotem do pochwy. Wiedzcie, że pięknie mu z mieczem u boku, a jeszcze piękniej – z mieczem w dłoni.”

“My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.”

“I don't know. A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof, and when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven.”

“Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.”

“You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.”

“How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us, we devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.”