Many brief follies--that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long stupidity. Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist’s business is to build the dwelling; as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him. Reflections on Literature and Morality
Pain or pleasure? I say pleasure. Discourses
It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another. Book VIII
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