A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends. - Friedrich Nietzsche

It is a new step towards independence, once a man dares to express opinions that bring disgrace on him if he entertains them; then even his friends and acquaintances begin to grow anxious. The man of talent must pass through this fire, too; afterwards he is much more his own person.

What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?

To find everything profound — that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.