The aphorism, the apophthegm, in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book-- what everyone else does not say in a book. Twilight of the Idols
“Earth could not answer; nor the Seas that mourn / In flowing Purple, their Lord forlorn; / Nor rolling Heaven, with all his Signs reveal’d / And hidden by the sleeve of Night and Morn.” Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” 1984
To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing – here is perfection of character. Book VII
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