“Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.”
Love“Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.”
Men“Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.”
Love“In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.”
Best“Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.”
Friendship“Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.”
Good“A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.”
God“There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.”
God“Mystical explanations are thought to be deep the truth is that they are not even shallow.”
Truth“Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.”
Men“It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.”
Men“Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.”
Truth“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying.”
Learning“What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?”
Love“This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.”
Love“The lie is a condition of life.”
Life“I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.”
Power“All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”
Power“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.”
Art“Love is not consolation. It is light.”
Love“Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.”
Freedom“Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.”
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