"Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall."
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"The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither of them feels the irony."
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"Evaluation is creation: hear it, you creators! Evaluating is itself the most valuable treasure of all that we value. It is only through evaluation that value exists: and without evaluation the nut of existence would be hollow. Hear it, you creators!"
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"The Antichrist, Section 7"
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"For this remains as I have already pointed out the essential difference between the two religions of decadence : Buddhism promises nothing, but actually fulfils; Christianity promises everything, but fulfils nothing."
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"What we do is never understood, but always merely praised or blamed."
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"Beware of spitting against the wind!"
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"Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enforcing a certain regime that disciplines human beings for social life by narrowing our perspectives and limiting our horizons."
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"The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters."
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"Most people are too stupid to act in their own interest"
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"My idea of paradise is a straight line to goal"
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"What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope."
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"To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier - that is the only way to keep joy pure."
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"Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul."
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"The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being successful."
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"All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, — the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality and innocence (idiocy)."
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"Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'."
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"What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?"
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"Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire."
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"Look not into the sun! Even the moon is too bright for your nocturnal eyes!"
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