“Loneliness, dejection, the contempt or pity of people around you--these are unpleasant feelings. But they are precisely the things that produce genuine Dark Ones.”
“Mine was the unbearable jealousy a cultured pearl must feel toward a genuine one. Or can there be such a thing in this world as a man who is jealous of the woman who loves him, precisely because of her love?”
“I can hardly describe to you the effect of these books. They produced in me an infinity of new images and feelings that sometimes raised me to ecstasy, but more frequently sunk me into the lowest dejection.”
“Loneliness can make you feel that you have a kingdom in darkness.”
“Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.”
“If there is one thing worse than self-pity, it was other people's pity.”