"'It will be sad, you know, to be left alone, quite alone, and not even have something to regret—nothing, absolutely nothing… because all that I have lost, all this, it was all nothing, a stupid, round zero—it was merely a dream!’”

”’I don't want there to be any lying. That's all I want, because that's the main thing. On earth it's impossible to live and not to lie, for life and lying are synonymous; well, but here for the fun of it we won't lie. The devil take it, the grave does mean something after all!’”