"This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer …"

""Do I look like someone who has something to do here on Earth?" — That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who i…"

"When I happen to be busy, I never give a moment's thought to the "meaning" of anything, particularly of whatever it i…"

"Self-knowledge — the bitterest knowledge of all and also the kind we cultivate least: what is the use of catching our…"

"In relation to any act of life, the mind acts as a killjoy."

"Each of us believes, quite unconsciously of course, that we alone pursue the truth, which the rest are incapable of s…"

"Fortunate those who, born before science, were privileged to die of their first disease!"

"Two enemies — the same man divided."

"The more you are a victim of contradictory impulses, the less you know which to yield to. To lack character — precise…"

"Where are my sensations? They have melted into... me, and what is this me, this self, but the sum of these evaporated…"