What is the use of Christ's words, unless we set an example?

Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.

For example, I'm terribly proud. I'm as mistrustful and as sensitive as a hunchback or a dwarf; but, in truth, I've experienced some moments when if someone had slapped my face, I might even have been grateful for it. I'm being serious. I probably would have been able to derive a peculiar sort of pleasure from it-the pleasure of despair, naturally, but the most intense pleasures occur in despair, especially when you're very acutely aware of the hopelessness of your own predicament.

a man is no example for a woman. It’s a different thing.

Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all.

I have in my own life merely carried to the extreme that which you have never ventured to carry even halfway ; and what's more, you've regarded your cowardice as prudence, and found comfort in deceiving yourselves. So that, in fact, I may be even more "alive" than you are. Do take a closer look!

If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.