To The Lover The Loved

To Perceive The Aura Of An Object We Look At Means To Invest It With The Ability To Look At Us In Return.

There Is No Document Of Civilization Which Is Not At The Same Time A Document Of Barbarism.

The Destructive Character Knows Only One Watchword: Make Room. And Only One Activity: Clearing Away. The Destructive Character Is Young And Cheerful. For Destroying Rejuvenates, Because It Clears Away The Traces Of Our Own Age; It Cheers, Because Everything Cleared Away Means To The Destroyer A Complete Reduction, Indeed A Rooting Out, Of His Own Condition.

The Distracted Person, Too, Can Form Habits.

He Who Observes Etiquette But Objects To Lying Is Like Someone Who Dresses Fashionably But Wears No Vest.