"Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end."
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"The last Christian died on a cross."
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"We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating."
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"Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook."
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"When we stand the truth on its head we generally fail to notice that our head is not standing where it should be standing either."
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""What is good?" ye ask. To be brave is good. Let the little girls say: "To be good is what is pretty, and at the same time touching.""
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"One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity."
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"A living being seeks, above all, to discharge its strength. Life is will to power."
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"At one time or another, almost every politician needs an honest man so badly that, like a ravenous wolf, he breaks into a sheep-fold: not to devour the ram he has stolen, however, but rather to conceal himself behind its wooly back."
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"I know my fate. One day my name will be tied to the memory of something monstrous - a crisis without equal on earth.... I am no man, I am dynamite!"
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"We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture."
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"We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us!"
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"I love him who chasteneth his God, because he loveth his God: for he must succumb through the wrath of his God."
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"Full is the earth of the superfluous; marred is life by the many-too-many. May they be decoyed out of this life by the "life eternal"!"
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"Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances."
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"A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go."
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"There exists no more repulsive and desolate creature in the world than the man who has evaded his genius and who now looks furtively to left and right, behind him and all about him. ... He is wholly exterior, without kernel, a tattered, painted bag of clothes."
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"The living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type."
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"The English are the people of consummate cant."
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"Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept much change."
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