But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself.

I am strongly convinced that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness at all is a sickness.

They were like two enemies in love with one another.

Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.

What matters," said the prince at last, "is that you have a child's trusting nature and extraordinary truthfulness. Do you know that a great deal can be forgiven you for that alone?

Even as I approach the gambling hall, as soon as I hear, two rooms away, the jingle of money poured out on the table, I almost go into convulsions.

I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.