Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question "why" is lacking. What does nihilism mean?--that the supreme values devaluate themselves.

Joy wants the eternity of all things, wants deep, wants deep eternity.

The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start.

You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.

In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.