A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life. |
Family... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children. |
Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view. |
Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view. |
Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak. |
I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves. |
I dream, therefore I exist. |
I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love. |
I love her and she loves me, and we hate each other with a wild hatred born of love |
I love her and she loves me, and we hate each other with a wild hatred born of love |
People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life - to learn something is a joy to me. |
People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. |
Society is madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police |
Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits, it can be replaced by new habits. Constituting, as it does, a void, it is soon filled up by a real ''horror vacuum.'' |
That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all. |