"Horrible experiences lead us to wonder whether..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“What is the strongest cure?--Victory.”

“The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!”

“There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of my childhood was a day of public rejoicing.”

“From my experience with wild apples, I can understand that there may be reason for a savage's preferring many kinds of food which the civilized man rejects. The former has the palate of an outdoor man. It takes a savage or wild taste to appreciate a wild fruit.”

“I'm just a person; I like to experience whatever the feeling is and whatever I'm going through.”

“All life is experience, and one level is exchanged for another only when its lesson is learned.”

“He had a sense of his dignity, which was of the most exquisite nature. He could detect a design upon it when nobody else had any perception of the fact. His life was made an agony by the number of fine scalpels that he felt to be incessantly engaged in dissecting his dignity.”

“A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it.”

“Because of something told under the famished hornOf the hunter's moon, that hung between the night and the day,To dream of women whose beauty was folded in dismay,Even in an old story, is a burden not to be borne.”