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There is one path in the world that none can walk but you. Where does it lead? Don’t ask, walk!

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Convictions are prisons.

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To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities—I wish that they should not rema...more

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I ascended, I ascended, I dreamt, I thought,—but everything oppressed me. A sick one did I resemble, whom bad torture wearieth, and a worse dream reaw...more

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The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

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Without music, life would be a mistake.

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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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Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

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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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For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then ...more

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Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

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Art is the proper task of life.

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Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add...more

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Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.

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For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.