„How mysterious this life was, how deep and muddy its waters ran, yet how clear and noble what emerged from them.“ Narcissus and Goldmund
I am tormented by temptations." "What kind? There is a cure for temptation." "What?" "Yielding to it.“ Le Pere Goriot
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
Do a man dirt, yourself you hurt. Crime And Punishment
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