“Reason is the slave of passion.”

“I was a coward and a slave. I say this without the slightest embarrassment. Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave.”

“It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave”

“Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. That is his normal condition. Of that I am firmly persuaded. He is made and constructed to that very end. And not only at the present time owing to some casual circumstance, but always, at all times, a decent man is bound to be a coward and a slave.”

“...there is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.”

“Is it true that you insisted you knew no difference in beauty between some brutal sensual stunt and any great deed, even the sacrifice of life for mankind? Is it true that you found a coincidence in beauty, a sameness of pleasure at both poles?...You married out of a passion for torture, out of a passion for remorse, out of moral sensuality.”

“When reason fails, the devil helps!”