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He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.

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When we observe how some people know how to manage their experiences--their insignificant, everyday experiences--so that they become an arable soil th...more

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We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

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In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and th...more

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The eternal child. - We think that play and fairy tales belong to childhood:how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time of life toli...more

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There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

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The more thoroughly a person understands life, the less he will mock, though in the end he might still mock the "thoroughness of his understanding.

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All good things are powerful stimulants to life, even a good book written against life.

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The images of myth must be the daemonic guardians, omnipresent and unnoticed, which protect the growth of the young mind, and guide man's interpretati...more

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What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived...more

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Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of riche...more

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It is invisible hands that torment and bend us the worst

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You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should you have your pride in the morning and your resignation in the evening?Life i...more

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It is true: we love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.There is always a certain madness in love. But also ther...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