A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable.

In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

Christianity is religion for the executioner.

And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally.

Not to be cowardly when it comes to our own actions! Not to leave them in the lurch!--The sting of conscience is indecent.

...If I continued to harbour any hope for music it lay in the expectation that a musician might come who was sufficiently bold, subtle, malicious, southerly, superhealthy to confront that music and in an immortal fashion take revenge on it.