Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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Call me crazy - I love elk meat!
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The Christ-symbol is of the greatest importance for psychology in so far as it is perhaps the most highly developed and differentiated symbol of the self, apart from the figure of the Buddha.
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Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
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The nurses were all angels in my eyes.
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Men need to live and breathe women.
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Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.
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The more we can put the camera in a better place, the more we can take the audience on a more extreme journey with that character.
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Pride comes from not knowing yourself and the world. The older you grow, and the more you see, the less reason you will find for being proud. Ignorance and inexperience are the pedestal of pride; once the pedestal is removed - pride will soon come down.
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For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.
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I know people could tell incredible stories. People have been in concentration camps, or women being raped, or a man going to war and not recovering from it. People have been robbed and beaten. A lot of people have had strong events in their life, which I didn't.
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No artist tolerates reality.
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A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all.
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These people in the North-East of Ireland, from old prejudices perhaps more than from anything else, from the whole of their past history, would prefer, I believe, to accept the government of a foreign country rather than submit to be governed by hon. Gentlemen below the Gangway.
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Sometimes I feel as if the only thing I can do is write. It helps me think.
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The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.
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The only force at the disposal of democracy is that of public opinion.
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Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious.
