Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.

The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum! What does this mad myth signify?

People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone.

The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal.

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.

If excitement is a mechanism our Creator uses for His own amusement, love is something that belongs to us alone and enables us to flee the Creator. Love is our freedom. Love lies beyond "Es Muss sein!