"In being wildly natural we recover best from being unnatural, from being spiritual."
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"To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls or stands--or gets down."
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"For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it."
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"Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother."
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"When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness."
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"The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills."
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"The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments."
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"The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along with allwork that is not done by a machine--which is to say, its little bit of humanity."
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"It is with artworks as it is with wine: it is much better when we do not need either one, when we stick with water, and when out of our own inner fire, the inner sweetness of our own soul, we turn the water over and over again into wine ourselves."
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"Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious."
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"Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master."
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"We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world."
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"Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality."
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"When one gives up Christian belief one thereby deprives oneself of the right to Christian morality. For the latter is absolutely not self-evident: one must make this point clear again and again, in spite of English shallowpates."
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"Faced with a world of "modern ideas" which would like to banish everyone into a corner and a "specialty," a philosopher, if there could be a philosopher these days, would be compelled to establish the greatness of mankind, the idea of "greatness," on the basis of his own particular extensive range and multiplicity, his own totality in the midst of diversity."
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"I fly in dreams, I know it is my privilege, I do not recall a single situation in dreams when I was unable to fly. To execute every sort of curve and angle with a light impulse, a flying mathematics - that is so distinct a happiness that it has permanently suffused my basic sense of happiness."
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"Life is a well of joy; but for those out of whom an upset stomach speaks, which is the father of melancholy, all wells are poisoned."
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"Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all."
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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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"Robinson had a servant even better than Friday: His name was Crusoe."
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