Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations.

I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

What a fate: to be condemned to work for a firm where the slightest negligence at once gave rise to the gravest suspicion! Were all the employees nothing but a bunch of scoundrels, was there not among them one single loyal devoted man who, had he wasted only an hour or so of the firm's time in the morning, was so tormented by conscience as to be driven out of his mind and actually incapable of leaving his bed?

Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into." "You only need to change your direction," said the cat, and ate it up.