I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.

Do you believe you can know yourselves if you don't somehow con- struct yourselves? Or that I can know you if I don't construct you in my way? And can you know me if I don't construct you in my way? We can know only what we succeed in giving form to.

Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes

When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.

A fact is like a sack which won't stand up if it's empty. In order that it may stand up, one has to put into it the reason and sentiment which caused it to exist.

If only we could see in advance all the harm that can come from the good we think we are doing.

Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.