“It is a mistake to believe in my presence... If I take a seat at a party, I can see, even from afar, that only a ghost is sitting there.”

— Hugo Ball

Quote from his text 'Flucht aus der Zeit', September 1915, p. 44; as quoted by Debbie Lewer in 'Papers of Surrealism Issue 6 Autumn 2007', p. 10
It was in 1915, shortly before Hugo Ball left Berlin for Zurich
before 1916

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