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Egoism is the law of perspective applied to feelings: what is closest appears large and weighty, and as one moves farther away size and weight decrease.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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To discover he is loved in return ought really to disenchant the lover with the beloved.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed? Behold, I show you the Superman. He is this lightning, he is this madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Your god is dead and only the ignorant weep. And if you claim there is a hell, then we shall meet there!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Invisible threads are the strongest ties.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people--but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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In music the passions enjoy themselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Hour-Hand of Life --- Life consists of rare, isolated moments of the greatest significance, and of innumerably many intervals, during which at best the silhouettes of those moments hover about us. Love, springtime, every beautiful melody, mountains, the moon, the sea - all these speak completely to the heart but once, if in fact they ever do get a chance to speak completely. For many men do not have those moments at all, and are themselves intervals and intermissions in the symphony of real life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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We have to learn how to come out of unclean situations cleaner than we were, and even how to wash ourselves with dirty water whenwe need to.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions — they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Everyone nowadays lives through too much and thinks through too little: they have a ravenous appetite and colic at the same time so that they keep getting thinner and thinner no matter how much they eat.--Whoever says nowadays, "I have not experienced anything"--is a simpleton.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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No artist tolerates reality.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Perhaps man will rise ever higher as soon as he ceases to flow out into a god.
Friedrich Nietzsche
