What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.
Nothing beautiful can be summarized.
Power without abuse loses its charm.
We hope vaguely but dread precisely.
Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
We are wont to condemn self-love; but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves.