“In life, he suffered from a sense of unreality, as do many Englishmen.”

“[C]hoice in many facets of our life has gone from implicit and often psychologically unreal to explicit and psychologically very real.”

“The only profound thinkers are the ones who do not suffer from a sense of the ridiculous.”

“Life is not, and death is a dream. Suffering has invented them both as self-justification. Man alone is torn between an unreality and an illusion.”

“What can characterize the Outsider is a sense of strangeness, or unreality.”

“Harold Waring, like many other Englishmen, was a bad linguist.”

“We suffer: the external world begins to exist...; we suffer to excess: it vanishes. Pain instigates the world only to unmask its unreality.”

“Not content with real sufferings, the anxious man imposes imaginary ones on himself; he is a being for whom unreality exists, must exist; otherwise where would he obtain the ration of torment his nature demands?”

“Smith had no illusion that this would be easy to do, nor did he suffer from the delusion that such an exercise would, in any sense, be perfect. But he did have the conviction that the exercise could still be very useful, and the best should not be made into an enemy of the good.”

“I’ve come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental.”