"I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me. But I went away — yes, the dash should be as long as the radius of t…"

"That which is called 'the world' is nothing but a lot of people, each of whom has lost his self through a process of reflection upon the self, a process which has become so habitual that it has become…"

"The most common deception is when a person deceives himself; the next most common is when he deceives others; the least common is when he deceives himself into believing that he is deceiving others."

"To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose oneself."

"What is the Absurd? It is, as may quite easily be seen, that I, a rational being, must act in a case where my reason, my powers of reflection, tell me: you can just as well do the one thing as the oth…"