“Well, monsieur, I am suffering at this moment something strange, and that is the satisfaction of despair. There is in certain souls – and I have just discovered that mine is of the number – a real satisfaction in the assurance that all is lost, and the time is come to yield.”

“Well, monsieur, I am suffering at this moment something strange, and that is the satisfaction of despair. There is in certain souls – and I have just discovered that mine is of the number – a real satisfaction in the assurance that all is lost, and the time is come to yield.”

— Alexandre Dumas