"Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character."
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"Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger."
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"What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored."
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"In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man."
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"No artist tolerates reality."
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"Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment."
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"Only he who is man enough will release the woman in woman."
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"What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine."
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"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly."
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"Our greatest experiences are our quietest moments."
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"When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago."
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"The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success)."
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"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind."
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"What is done out of love always occurs beyond good and evil."
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"Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood."
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"My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it"
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"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."
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"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy."
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"Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day."
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"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book."
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