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Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this cre...more

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Of man there is little here: therefore do their women masculinize themselves. For only he who is man enough will save the woman in woman.

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I love the great despisers, because they are the great adorers, and arrows of longing for the other shore.

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Three metamorphoses of the spirit have I designated to you: how thespirit became a camel, the camel a lion, and the lion at last a child.

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If one shifts the center of gravity of life out of life into the “Beyond” – into nothingness – one has deprived life as such of its center of gravity....more

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Without music, life would be a mistake.

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One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of lif cannot be estimated.

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Is the world really beautified by the fact that man thinks it beautiful? He has humanized it, that is all.

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Pure logic is the impossibility by means of which science is maintained.

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Healthy introspection, without undermining oneself; it is a rare gift to venture into the unexplored depths of the self, without delusions or fictions...more

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Every moment of life wants to tell us something, but we do not want to hear what it has to say: when we are alone and quiet we are afraid that somethi...more

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One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.

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Your educators can only be your liberators.

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Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal... an exalted and noble 'to this end....more

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These solitary ones who are free in spirit know thatin one thing or another they must constantly put on an appearance that is different from the way t...more