The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for a day in any other relation.

All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport - in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.