"Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy."
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"Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits."
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"He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge."
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"Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all."
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"Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion."
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"It is only those who know how to feel that "this is not good" who devise improvements."
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"A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation."
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"The noble man honours in himself the powerful one, him also who has power over himself, who knows how to speak and how to keep silence, who takes pleasure in subjecting himself to severity and hardness, and has reverence for all that is severe and hard."
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"Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation."
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"It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around."
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"What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'."
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"It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I knowr its affinity and solidarity with the other."
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"Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience."
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"Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest."
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"Once we have found ourselves, we must understand how from time to time to lose--and then to find--ourselves once again: assuming,that is, that we are thinkers. For a thinker it is a drawback to be bound to a single person all the time."
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"No victor believes in chance."
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"Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance."
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"A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace."
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"The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity."
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"Whoever does not have a good father should procure one."
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