Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

Humanity is a comic role.

A complete need should not exist... love, life in common with loved ones?

Man has his being in truth--if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying--but of acting against one's conviction.

Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.

Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.