The Gadfly - Ethel Voynich

Life is pretty much the same everywhere, it seemed: ugly, putrid, infested with vermin, full of shameful secrets and dark corners. Still, life is life, and you must make the best of it.

Don't forget that what we really need to reform is the relations between man and man.

And what did you think about the miserable clowns, about the terrible life they have! They must make all those people laugh, and you don`t know how miserable they often feel when they stand before the laughing audience and try to be very funny!