“Lives begun in deception are always lived in shadow." (Stated by Yellowfang, page 3)”
“Of course his life could be found in the pages of a book; I had just begun to notice that the lives of men always are.”
“Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But the shadows are always longer.”
“Life has not been devised by morality: it wants deception, it lives on deception.”
“Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.”
“More. Oh that word. That deceptive word. That eater of lives; that malcontent.”