I bear the dungeon within me; within me is winter, ice, and despair; I have darkness in my soul.

I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.

Oh sky, without me, do not change,
Oh moon, without me, do not shine;
Oh earth, without me, do not grow,
Oh time, without me, do not go.

...Oh, you cannot go, without me.

Oh sky, without me, do not change,
Oh moon, without me, do not shine;
Oh earth, without me, do not grow,
Oh time, without me, do not go.

Others give you the name of Love,
And me the sultan of that love.
Higher than such illusions,
Oh, you cannot go, without me.

Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!

I say unto you: one must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. I say unto you: you still have chaos in yourselves.
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Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue. Where is the frenzy with which you should be inoculated. Behold. I give you the Ubermensch. He is this lightning. He is this frenzy.

I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.

I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you have still chaos in you.

You must suffer me to go my own dark way.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Love without knowledge is demonic.

I shouldn't precisely have chosen madness if there had been any choice, but once such a thing has taken hold of you, you can't very well get out of it.

You find my words dark. Darkness is in our souls, do you not think?

Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.