“You do all you can to humanize and familiarize the world, and suddenly it becomes more strange than ever.”

“Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself?”

“To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell, is to be banished from humanity.”

“I have not seen anywhere in the world a more obvious malformed person and miracle than myself. Through use and time we become conditioned to anything strange; but the more I become familiar with and know myself, the more my deformity amazes me and the less I understand myself.”

“Of course the world of work begins to become - threatens to become - our only world, to the exclusion of all else. The demands of the working world grow ever more total, grasping ever more completely the whole of human existence.”

“(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too.”