It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object.
An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as one wants.
What is simple is false and what is not is useless.
Man cannot bear his own portrait. The image of his limits and his own determinacy exasperates him, drives him mad.
to live means to lack something at every moment
A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.