was ihn nicht umbringt, macht ihn starker

I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous - a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of co…

All things considered, I could never have survived my youth without Wagnerian music. For I seemed condemned to the society of Germans. If a man wishes to rid h…

One must pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while still alive.

At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it - but I did I bear it. The question remains: how?

You will never lose your nerve. Your life, probably, but never your nerve.'

It is difficulties that show what men are.