In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world.

You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away.

This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have to observe myself all the closer.

I made the remark that I don't avoid people in order to live quietly, but rather in order to be able to die quietly.

Writer speaks a stench.

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.