Art is the proper task of life. - Friedrich Nietzsche

"No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone."

"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage"

"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes."

"Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter."

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book."