"Against the censurers of brevity. - Something..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.”

“Your enemy shall ye seek; your war shall ye wage, and for the sake of your thoughts! And if your thoughts succumb, your uprightness shall still shout triumph thereby!”

“Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon drop off.”

“Man's greatest drive is not love or hate but to change another person's writing.”

“Find something you like, go into a room, close the door and read it aloud. Read it aloud. Everybody in the world who likes dance can see dance, or hear music, or see art, or admire architecture - but everybody in the world uses words who is not a recluse or mute. But the writer has to take these most common things, more common than musical notes or dance positions, a writer has to take some adverbs, and verbs and nouns and ball them up together and make them bounce.”

“In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.”

“Your life is constantly nourished by your thoughts. Whatever the direction your life is moving, your thoughts have led you there.”

“This absurd, godless world is, then, peopled with men who think clearly and have ceased to hope. And I have not yet spoken of the most absurd character, who is the creator.”

“Those with very loud voices in their throats are nearly incapable of thinking subtle thoughts.”