It has become customary to say that a man needs only six feet of land. But a corpse needs six feet, not a person. Seagull

All great ideas are dangerous. De Profundis

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. The Soul of Man Under Socialism

„All existence seemed to be based on duality, on contrast. Either one was a man or one was a woman, either a wanderer or sedentary burgher, either a thinking person or a feeling person-no one could breathe in at the same time as he breathed out, be a man as well as a woman, experience freedom as well as order, combine instinct and mind. One always had to pay for one with the loss of the other, and one thing was always just as important and desirable as the other.“ Narcissus and Goldmund