At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards.

Was mich nicht zugrunde richtet, macht mich starker.

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

Everything about woman is a riddle, and everything about woman has a single solution: that is, pregnancy

In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss.

Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a creator you belong tothe free, as an exchanger you are their slave and instrument.