Become who you are. Make what only you can make.

No artist will tolerate the world for one second as it is.

Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.

Thou seekest disciples? Then thou seekest ciphers.

He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.

With deep men, as with deep wells, it takes a long time for anything that falls into them to hit bottom. Onlookers, who almost never wait long enough, readily suppose that such men are callous and unresponsive--or even boring.

"God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not waste any time upon them-maybe I was never childish enough for that?