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"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
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"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."
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That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
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Socialism itself can hope to exist only for brief periods here and there, and then only through the exercise of the extremest terrorism. For this reason it is secretly preparing itself for rule through fear and is driving the word “justice” into the heads of the half-educated masses like a nail so as to rob them of their reason… and to create in them a good conscience for the evil game they are to play.
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"Without music, life would be a mistake."
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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
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"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star."
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"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?"
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"There are no facts, only interpretations."
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Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
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All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.
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"Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial."
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We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
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Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
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The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
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For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
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There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.
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Idleness is the parent of psychology.
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Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.
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Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.
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In revenge and in love woman is more barbaric than man is.
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It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.
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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.
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One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
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One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.
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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
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The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.
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We have art in order not to die of the truth.
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Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
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Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
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When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
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Woman was God's second mistake.
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All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.
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The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
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He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
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The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.
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When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
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There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
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A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
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Invisible threads are the strongest ties.
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
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One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.
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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
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One pays dearly for being immortal: one has to die several times while alive.
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What is the seal of liberation? — No longer being ashamed in front of oneself.
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Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.
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Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.
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The doctrine of equality! … But there is no more venomous poison in existence: for it appears to be preached by justice itself, when it is actually the end of justice … “Equality to the equal; inequality to the unequal” — that would be true justice speaking: and its corollary, ‘never make the unequal equal’
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