What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate - and immediately forget we have done so.

A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.

Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.

Love brings to light the lofty and hidden characteristics of the lover--what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it caneasily be deceptive with respect to what is normal in him.

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.

A woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than the truth - her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance and beauty.