"What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended by a thin thread."
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"We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed."
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"That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness."
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"As a result, nature is something entirely different from what comes to mind when we invoke its name."
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"Has there ever been anything filthier on earth than the saints in the wilderness? Around them was not only the devil loose around them- but also the swine."
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"One pays dearly for being immortal: one must die many times during his life."
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"It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more?"
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"One cannot read the New Testament without acquired admiration for whatever it abuses not to speak of the "wisdom of this world," which an impudent wind bag tries to dispose of "by the foolishness of preaching.""
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"There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by piety to a seemingly higher order of things, and thereby to retain their satisfaction with the actual world in which they find it difficult enough to live - this very difficulty being necessary."
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"Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal."
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"At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me."
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"Disobedience- that is the nobility of slaves."
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"We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary."
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"O Voltaire! O humanity! O idiocy! There is something ticklish in "the truth," and in the SEARCH for the truth; and if man goes about it too humanely-"il ne cherche le vrai que pour faire le bien"-I wager he finds nothing!"
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"Yet for all that, there is nothing in me of a founder of a religion--religions are affairs of the rabble; I find it necessary to wash my hands after I have come into contact with religious people."
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"In war personal revenge maintains its silence."
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"Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel."
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"You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war - a war for your opinions. And when your opinion is defeatedy our honesty should still cry triumph over that!"
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"Everything that is ponderous, vicious and pompously clumsy, all long-winded and wearying kinds of style, are developed in great variety among Germans."
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"Christianity has the rancor of the sick at its very core-the instinct against the healthy, against health. Everything that is well-constructed, proud, gallant and, above all, beautiful gives offense to its ears and eyes."
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