“Life is like a flame that is always burning itself out...”
“Success in life is to maintain this ecstasy, to burn always with this hard gemlike flame.”
“To burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.”
“Would that, like the smoke of the watch-fires that mounts and vanishes at random in the empty sky, the smouldering flame of passion could burn itself away”
“Like a flame is real enough, isn't it, while it's burning?-even if there's a time it goes out?”
“The fiery force is nothing more than the life force as we know it. It is the flame of desire and love, of sex and beauty, of pleasure and joy as we consume and are consumed, as we burn with pleasure and burn out in time.”