“most men know what they hate; few what they love”

“For men love what they cannot have, and hate what they cannot control.”

“He loves deep... hates hard, ever'thing's that killed what he loves. All great warriors are sich men.”

“whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable.”

“we don’t even know what living means now, what it is, and what it is called? Leave us alone without books and we shall be lost and in confusion at once. We shall not know what to join on to, what to cling to, what to love and what to hate, what to respect and what to despise. We are oppressed at being men—men with a real individual body and blood, we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalised man.”

“It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of. Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what they fear most.”