I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did.

Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.

The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end.

We grow hostile to many an artist or writer, not because we finally come to see he has deceived us, but because he thought no subtler means were required to ensnare us.

That is the most extreme form of nihilism: nothingness (the "meaningless") eternally!

They devour each other and cannot even digest themselves.

However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself.