In her presence I could dare everything: sincerity, emotion, pathos.
Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with.
Beauty is a rebellion against time.
But then he told himself: What does it really mean to be useful? Today's world, just as it is, contains the sum of the utility of all people of all times. Which implies: The highest morality consists in being useless.
Is not parody the eternal lot of man?
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.