“Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.”
“There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.”
“What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd.”
“In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ...It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow.”
“Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing of ecstasy at all.”
“Anyone who has not experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.”