I had a feeling once about Mathematics, that I saw it all—Depth beyond depth was revealed to me—the Byss and the Abyss. I saw, as one might see the transit of Venus—or even the Lord Mayor's Show, a quantity passing through infinity and changing its sign from plus to minus. I saw exactly how it happened and why the tergiversation was inevitable: and how the one step involved all the others. It was like politics. But it was after dinner and I let it go! Never Give In!

First principle: one must need strength, otherwise one will never have it. Twilight of the Idols

He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies. Animal Farm

To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her. The Karamazov Brothers