"Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother."
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"There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause."
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"A declaration of war on the masses by higher men is needed! ... Everything that makes soft and effeminate, that serves the end of the people or the feminine, works in favor of universal suffrage, i.e. the domination of the inferior men. But we should take reprisal and bring this whole affair to light and the bar of judgment."
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"The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head, but on the other hand, we have become through the development of humanity so tenderly suffering that we need the highest kind of means of salvation and consolation: whence arises the danger that man may bleed to death through the truth that he realises."
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"The church is precisely that against which Jesus preached -- and against which he taught his disciples to fight."
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"The creation of freedom for oneself and a sacred "No" even to duty -- for that, my brothers, the lion is needed."
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"He who is dissatisfied with himself is continually ready for revenge and we others will be his victims, if only in having always to endure his ugly sight. For the sight of the ugly makes one bad and gloomy."
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"It's not the intensity of the man, but the duration of his intensity that makes the man great."
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"The states in which we infuse a transfiguration and a fullness into things and poetize about them until they reflect back our fullness and joy in life... three elements principally: sexuality, intoxication and cruelty all belonging to the oldest festal joys."
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"The doctrine of equality! ... But there is no more venomous poison in existence: for it appears to be preached by justice itself, when it is actually the end of justice ... "Equality to the equal; inequality to the unequal" that would be true justice speaking: and its corollary, "never make the unequal equal"."
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"In the stream.- Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads."
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"Never trust a thought that didn't come by walking."
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"The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks!"
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"Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius."
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"There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties."
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"One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived."
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"If it is true to say of the lazy that they kill time, then it is greatly to be feared that an era which sees its salvation in public opinion, this is to say private laziness, is a time that really will be killed: I mean that it will be struck out of the history of the true liberation of life. How reluctant later generations will be to have anything to do with the relics of an era ruled, not by living men, but by pseudo-men dominated by public opinion."
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"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid."
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"History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries."
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"Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood."
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