"Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed."
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"There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe."
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"I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed."
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"There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them."
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"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."
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"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you."
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"Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal."
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"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything."
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"Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal."
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"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."
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"My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company."
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"Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity."
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"The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame."
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"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
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"Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you."
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"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."
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"Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd."
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"you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?"
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"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind."
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"The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly."
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