"When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly."
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"Heavy, heavy-hearted people grow lighter and rise occasionally to their surface through precisely that which makes others heavier,through hatred and love."
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"Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?"
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"Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!"
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"What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under."
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"The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night."
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"Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present."
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"Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed."
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"The secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships out into uncharted seas! Live in conflict with your equals and with yourselves! Be robbers and ravagers as soon as you ca not be rulers and owners, you men of knowledge! The time will soon past when you could be content to live concealed int he woods like timid deer!"
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"Forgetting: that is a divine capacity. And whoever aspires to the heights and wants to fly must cast off much that is heavy and make himself light--I call it a divine capacity for lightness."
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"People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to demand religious sentiments from those whose daily life is not empty and monotonous."
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"He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things."
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"Or shall I go out as a light does, not first blown out by the wind, but grown tired and weary of itself - a burnt out light? Or finally, shall I blow myself out, so as not to burn out?"
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"In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book."
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"One man runs to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and another because he wants to loose himself. Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison for you."
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"There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to truth: what is it? Is it the will to not allow ourselves to be deceived? Is it the will not to deceive? One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived."
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"Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new."
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"It is within your power to see that all you have experienced, trials, errors, faults, deceptions, passions, your love and your hope, shall be merged wholly in your aim."
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"For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child."
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"I am too inquisitive, too skeptical, too arrogant, to let myself be satisfied with an obvious and crass solution of things. God is such an obvious and crass solution; a solution which is a sheer indelicacy to us thinkers - at bottom He is really nothing but a coarse commandment against us: ye shall not think!"
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