And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.

He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it

When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time

And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.

Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own: under the influence of music I have the illusion of feeling things I don't really feel, of understanding things I don't understand, being able to do things I'm not able to do... Can it really be allowable for anyone who feels like it to hypnotize another person, or many other persons, and then do what he likes with them? Particularly if the hypnotist is the first unscrupulous individual who happens to come along?

Perfection is impossible without humility. Why should I strive for perfection, if I am already good enough?

The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.