Pass us by, and forgive us our happiness

If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all.

I sometimes think love consists precisely of the voluntary gift by the loved object of the right to tyrannize over it.

Or renounce life altogether! Accept fate obediently as it is, once and for all, and stifle everything in myself, renouncing any right to act, to live, to love.

A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.

you don't need free will to determine that twice two is four. that's not what i call free will

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.