"Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?"
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"Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?"
"As an artist one has no home in Europe except in Paris."
"Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful."
"No journey is too great, when one finds what one seeks."
"One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure."
"I hate you most because you attract, but are not strong enough to pull me to you."
"The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go."
"You must climb above yourself-up and beyond, until you have even your stars under you."
"To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [....] Without cruelty there is no festival."
"All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen."
"A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book."
"Life without music is no life at all."
"What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness."
"Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further."
"Against boredom even gods struggle in vain."
"Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them."
"I love those who do not know how to live for today."
"Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed."
"This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!"
"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?"