There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.

I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality.

And yet I am convinced that man will never give up true suffering- that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole root of consciousness.

My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it's absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so.

What tender and devoted mother wouldn't be dismayed and ill with terror at her son's or daughter's stepping even one hair's breath off the beaten track. No, better let him be happy and live in comfort without originality, is what every mother thinks when she rocks the cradle. The only person among us who can fail to reach the general's rank is the original man - in other words, the man who won't be quiet.