Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
No existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself.
That is what chills your spine when you read an account of a suicide: not the frail corpse hanging from the window bars but what happened inside that heart immediately before.
I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and thereยดs the true, preestablished balance.