“The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.”

“I should fancy that the real tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self-denial.”

“The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives.”

“So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape (...)”

“Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.”

“The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.”

“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”