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All great artists and thinkers are great workers.
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A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .
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Was sagt dein Gewissen? - 'Du sollst der werden, der du bist.'
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Man is more ape than many of the apes.
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The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.
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The rights a man arrogates to himself are related to the duties he imposes on himself, to the tasks to which he feels equal. The great majority of men have no right to existence, but are a misfortune to higher men.
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God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think!
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Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy.
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Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.
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Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.
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It is the good war that hallows every cause.
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One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.
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Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.
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Only he who is man enough will release the woman in woman.
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The real question is: How much truth can I stand?
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The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.
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For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
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One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.
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Your highest thought, however, ye shall have it commanded unto you by me - and it is this: man is something that is to be surpassed.
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Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.
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To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.
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There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.
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Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.
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Art is the great stimulus to life.