"A genius may perhaps be a century..." - Quote by Soren Kierkegaard

“A man who cannot seduce men cannot save them either.”

“I have, I believe, the courage to doubt everything; I have, I believe, the courage to fight against everything; but I do not have the courage to acknowledge anything, the courage to possess, to own anything.”

“Death is not earnest in the same way the eternal is. To the earnestness of death belongs precisely that remarkable capacity for awakening, that resonance of a profound mockery which, detached from the thought of the eternal, is an empty and often brash jest, but together with the thought of the eternal is just what it should be, utterly different from the insipid solemness which least of all captures and holds a thought with tension like that of death.”

“My genius is in my nostrils.”

“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”

“All men of genius, and all those who have gained rank in the republic of letters, are brothers, whatever may be the land of their nativity.”

“One can fall in love and still hate.”

“So foul and fair a day I have not seen.”

“Tie two birds together. They will not be able to fly, even though they now have four wings.”