"God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?"
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"Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine."
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"He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser."
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"In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge."
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"Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless."
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"Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly!"
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"The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs."
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"In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end."
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"Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce."
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"Art is the great stimulus to life."
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"A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow."
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"How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force!"
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"A small revenge is more human than no revenge at all."
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"The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There is still another world to be discovered--and more than one! Set sail, you philosophers!"
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"Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return."
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"Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself."
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"The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable."
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"Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive."
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"Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow."
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"In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame."
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