Really, I just want to quote, but it's worth noting that what other characters write about M. Teste is much more interesting than the texts attributed to Teste himself.

"Coming back to Monsieur Teste... a character of this kind could not survive in reality for more than a few quarters of an hour."

"He said in his low quick voice: 'Let them enjoy and obey!'"

"I sometimes amuse myself with an idea of our hearts borrowed from physics: they are made of an enormous injustice and a very small justice intimately combined."

"Simply remember that between men there are two relations only: logic or war."

"At the end of the mind, the body. But at the end of the body, the mind."

And so it goes on: intellectually difficult, beautifully expressed, all a fascinating experiment. ( )