The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.

The resolving of the ethical, is freedom; the negative resolution also has this, but the freedom, blank and bare, is as if tongue-tied, hard to express, and generally has something hard in its nature. Falling in love, however, promptly sets it to music, even if this composition contains a very difficult passage.

Don't you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask? Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with? Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this?

Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.

About as genuine as tea made from a bit of paper which once lay in a drawer beside another piece of paper which had been used to wrap up a few tea leaves from which tea had already been made three times.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night.