The young are amazed when they suffer.
Every few years something new breaks into the circle of my thoughts.
Wisdom knows when to return death's embrace.
Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent.
Being cultured is the least expensive form of respectability.
One's fetishes are fascinating, but not because of their beauty or significance. The same could be said for one's genitals, or one's children.