"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication."
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"Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost."
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"What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness"
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"Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit, and forces us to be strong."
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"It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong."
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"Life is that which must overcome itself again and again"
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"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had."
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"The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration."
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"We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets."
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"If an architect wants to strengthen a decrepit arch, he increases the load laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together."
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"Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'."
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"Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it."
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"Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere."
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"One should never know too precisely whom one has married"
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"When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life."
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"When a nation is on the downward path, when it feels its belief in its own future, its hope of freedom slipping from it, when it begins to see submission as a first necessity and the virtues of submission as measures of self-preservation, then it must overhaul its God."
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"If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority of that book in such stiff-necked fashion."
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"At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them."
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"It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge."
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"I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all."
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