Aphoristic Writings, Notebook, and Letters to a Friend, by Otto ...

A river’s peril is becoming a swamp. An ocean’s?
Whirlpools.
A possibility in the ocean corresponds to madness.
Swamp and night-fire.
The clouds conceal the light. The eternal embraces them.
Violet: undecided between good and evil, between pleasure and pain.
The snake is actually not in the stricter sense ugly. It is smooth; and yet siezes us
with a loathing for it: Lie!
Every animal has a face in which one discovers some kind of human emotion, an
instinct, a passion, a human weakness or baseness.
The tortoise always gives an impression of tiredness. On land it is awry and
prostrate, condemned to crawling; and thereby inept.
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