There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.

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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are...

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are...

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not...

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not...

Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.

Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to...

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to...

The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is...

The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is...

The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have...

The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have...

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he...

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he...

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true...

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true...

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to...

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to...

Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily...

Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily...

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good...

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good...

Take it and return it: the kiss of love

Take it and return it: the kiss of love

What kind of power is it that dares intrude between me and my bride, the...

What kind of power is it that dares intrude between me and my bride, the...

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they...

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they...

Life must be understood backwards; but... it must be lived forward.

Life must be understood backwards; but... it must be lived forward.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my...

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my...

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls...

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls...