If There Is No God, Then I

You Are A Man Still Young, So To Say, In Your First Youth And So Put Intellect Above Everything.

To Be Acutely Conscious Is A Disease, A Real, Honest-to-goodness Disease.

... Active Love Is A Harsh And Fearful Thing Compared With The Love In Dreams. Love In Dreams Thirsts For Immediate Action, Quickly Performed, And With Everyone Watching. Indeed, It Will Go As Far As The Giving Even Of One's Life, Provided It Does Not Take Long But Is Soon Over, As On Stage, And Eveyone Is Looking On And Praising. Whereas Active Love Is Labor And Persistence, And For Some People, Perhaps, A Whole Science.

Above All, Avoid Falsehood, Every Kind Of Falsehood, Especially Falseness To Yourself. Watch Over Your Own Deceitfulness And Look Into It Every Hour, Every Minute.

I Cannot Truly Imagine A Truly Great Person Who Hasn't Suffered.