I have not become the King’s First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire. Never Give In!

Stop being who you were and become who you are. The Zahir

Against boredom even the gods struggle in vain. The Antichrist

this second, violent world gushed out fragrantly everywhere, except in our rooms, where Mother and Father were. And that was very good. It was wonderful that here among us there was peace, order, and repose, duty and a clear conscience, forgiveness and love—and wonderful that all the rest existed, all those noisy, glaring, somber, and violent things, which nevertheless could be escaped with a single bound toward one’s mother. Demian