"Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!"
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"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad."
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"The Hour-Hand of Life --- Life consists of rare, isolated moments of the greatest significance, and of innumerably many intervals, during which at best the silhouettes of those moments hover about us. Love, springtime, every beautiful melody, mountains, the moon, the sea - all these speak completely to the heart but once, if in fact they ever do get a chance to speak completely. For many men do not have those moments at all, and are themselves intervals and intermissions in the symphony of real life."
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"What is the difference between someone who is convinced and one who is deceived? None, if he is well deceived."
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"Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal."
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"People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings."
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"I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary."
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"I love the great despisers because they are the great adorers."
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"The real world is much smaller than the imaginary"
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"I love those who do not know how to live, except by going under, for they are those who cross over."
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"It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men."
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"The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage."
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"These small things - nutrition, place, climate, recreation, the whole casuistry of selfishness - are inconceivably more important than everything one has taken to be important so far."
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"Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty."
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"All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness."
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"There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy."
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"Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt."
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"This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves."
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"The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned."
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"The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort; their delight is self-mastery; in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity, as instinct."
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