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Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.

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Everything goes, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being. Everything dies, everything blossoms again; eternally runs the year of bei...more

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Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell.

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To leave is to suffer,to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

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The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile ...more

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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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In practice it is death that works soseductively behind the image of its brother, sleep

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Every means hitherto employed with the intention of making mankind moral has been thoroughly immoral.

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Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.

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We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves.

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A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.

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In Heaven all the interesting people are missing.

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It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.

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If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.

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Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical...more