When we hate a person, what we hate in his image is something inside ourselves. Whatever isn’t inside us can’t excite us.” Demian
I shall repeat a hundred times; we really ought to free ourselves from the seduction of words! Beyond Good and Evil
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
I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more The Castle
Quotes