Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
From Friedrich Nietzsche
Love is not consolation. It is light.
Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.
Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.
If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
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