"It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night."
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"We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers."
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"I hate who steals my solitude, without really offer me in exchange company."
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"All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue."
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"In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross."
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"It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right."
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"All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance."
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"This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!"
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"I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things:—then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love from henceforth!"
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"One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up."
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"He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either."
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"Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful."
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"After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: "I am ugly"?."
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"Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good."
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"Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others."
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"No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge -- and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery."
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"Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones."
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"The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species."
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"In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain."
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"What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done."
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