My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love.

If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.

My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love.

You know, [women] do not really condemn any weakness: rather, they try to humiliate or disarm our strengths. That is why women arethe reward, not of the warrior, but of the criminal.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.

Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.