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Whatever the State saith is a lie; whatever it hath is a theft: all is counterfeit in it, the gnawing, sanguinary, insatiate monster.
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Die Länge des Tages. - Wenn man viel hineinzustecken hat, so hat ein Tag hundert Taschen.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby has he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph has he overcome every pain; human pain, however, is the sorest pain.
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When I was twelve years old I thought up an odd trinity: namely, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Devil. My inference wasthat God, in contemplating himself, created the second person of the godhead; but that, in order to be able to contemplate himself, he had to contemplate, and thus to create, his opposite.--With this I began to do philosophy.
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Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in the face of this discordance. My first book was devoted to it. The Birth of Tragedy believes in art on the background of another belief.
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I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.
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Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The ability to suffer is a small matter: in that line, weak women and even slaves often attain masterliness. But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of it that is great, that belongs to greatness.
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Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth inside out into the light.
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Not to be cowardly when it comes to our own actions! Not to leave them in the lurch!--The sting of conscience is indecent.
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We are responsible to ourselves for our own existence; consequently we want to be the true helmsman of this existence and refuse to allow our existence to resemble a mindless act of chance.
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The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous.
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Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.
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Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts.
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A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.
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The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.
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Dead are all gods: now we want the overman to live.
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A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions.
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Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.
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Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.
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To have and to want more that is life.
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But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeketh to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark and deep — into the evil.
Friedrich Nietzsche