When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused. The Alchemist
There is a limit to the time assigned you, and if you don't use it to free yourself it will be gone and never return. Book II
All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified. Counsels and Maxims
In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties. Parerga and Paralipomena
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