"The bite of conscience is indecent."
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"Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion."
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"It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of blood: but they took even these sweet and gloomy poisons from body and earth. They wanted to escape their own misery, and the stars were too far for them."
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"The danger in happiness - "Now everything is turning out right for me; from now on i'll love every turn of fate - Who wants to be my fate?"
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"Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up."
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"This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time; the light on the stars requires time; deeds though done, still require time to be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than the most distant stars - and yet they have done it themselves."
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"“Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?"
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"An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear."
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"One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless."
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"Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament."
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"If we lacked curiosity, we should do less for the good of our neighbor. But, under the name of duty or pity, curiosity steals into the home of the unhappy and the needy. Perhaps even in the famous mother-love there is a good deal of curiosity."
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"Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again."
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"Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir."
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"Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not at all, sees in everything said briefly something embryonic, not without censuring the author for having served him up such immature and unripened fare."
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"Everything about woman is a riddle, and everything about woman has a single solution: that is, pregnancy"
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"To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general."
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"For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but intervening shadows and damp afflictions and passing clouds."
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"It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality."
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"Christianity, alcohol the two great means of corruption."
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"Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity."
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