When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you.

Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.

Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

One who has given up any hope of winning a fight or has clearly lost it wants his style in fighting to be admired all the more.

I have given a name to my pain, and call it "dog".

There is such a thing as a hatred of lies and dissimulation, which is the outcome of a delicate sense of humor; there is also the selfsame hatred but as the result of cowardice, in so far as falsehood is forbidden by Divine law. Too cowardly to lie.