"This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.
More Friedrich Nietzsche quotes
"Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.
"There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
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"Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.
"Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
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"Love, too, has to be learned.
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"Psychology has falsified love as surrender and altruism, while it is an appropriation or a bestowal following from a super-abundance of personality. O...