"Not to be cowardly when it comes to our own actions! Not to leave them in the lurch!--The sting of conscience is indecent."
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"In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage."
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"I am not a man, I am dynamite!"
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"Horrible experiences lead us to wonder whether the person who experiences them might not be something horrible."
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"When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame."
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"The Gay Science, section 108"
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"Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!"
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"Some men have sighed over the abduction of their wives, but many more have sighed because no one wanted to abduct theirs."
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"When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame."
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"Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends?"
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"If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake our life in the cause, as martyrs do for the sake of our church : it is a sacrifice to our longing for power, or for the purpose of conserving our sense of power."
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"The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity."
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"It seems to me that to take a book of mine into his hands is one of the rarest distinctions that anyone can confer upon himself. I even assume that he removes his shoes when he does so-not to speak of boots."
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"There did he sit shrivelled in his chimney corner, fretting on account of his weak legs, world weary, will weary, and one day he suffocated through his excessive pity."
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"Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power over opposites; moreover, without tension: - that violence is no longer needed: that everything follows, obeys, so easily and so pleasantly - that is what delights the artist's WILL TO POWER."
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"There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation."
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"All truths are bloody truths to me."
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"What the sense feeleth, what the spirit discerneth, hath never its end in itself. But sense and spirit would fain persuade thee that they are the end of all things: so vain are they."
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"A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling."
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"The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. 'Behold , just now the world ... entire love. And woman must obey and find a depth for her surface. Surface is the disposition of woman: a mobile, stormy film over shallow water. Man's disposition, however, is deep; his river roars in subterranean caves: woman feels his strength but does not comprehend it."
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