"Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?"
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"A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation."
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"We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure."
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"And when your soul becometh great, then doth it become haughty, and in your sublimity there is wickedness."
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"Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them, is not something dreadful also."
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"Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace."
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"The universe without music would be madness."
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"Whatever we think about and question a lot becomes questionable."
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"All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity."
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"With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle: any explanation is better than none. . . . The causal instinct is thus conditional upon, and excited by, the feeling of fear. The "why?" shall, if at all possible, not give the cause for its own sake so much as for a particular kind of cause -- a cause that is comforting, liberating, and relieving."
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"one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood."
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"Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy."
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"The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment."
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"From the Sun I learned this: when he goes down, overrich; he pours gold into the sea out of inexhaustible riches, so that even the poorest fisherman still rows with golden oars. For this I once saw and I did not tire of my tears as I watched it."
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"Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie."
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"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad."
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"All great artists and thinkers are great workers."
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"All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment."
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"Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity."
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"There are two things a real man likes - danger and play; and he likes woman because she is the most dangerous of play things."
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