You see how wrong I go, how ridiculous I'm making myself in your eyes by keeping on guessing wrong like this! Doesn't that help you to come out with it? Come on now!

Layer by layer art strips life bare.

... there is no such thing as a rational world and a separate irrational world, but only one world containing both.

Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

But how do I get to having to write a book?... It was a mother who bore me, not an inkwell!

One does what one is; one becomes what one does.

Don't you know that every perfect life would be the end of art?