

“To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities—I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures.”
― The Will to Power
― The Will to Power

“When it comes to marriage, love is merely a visitor over a lifetime. Respect and kindness, they are the true foundations.”
― All the Colors of the Dark
― All the Colors of the Dark

“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
― A Farewell to Arms
― A Farewell to Arms

“Okay is the preserve of the uninspired, Patchwork. I’d rather live and die at the extremes than exist in the middle.”
― All the Colors of the Dark
― All the Colors of the Dark

“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
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