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It is most important to allow the brain the full measure of sleep which is required to restore it; for sleep is to a man's whole nature what winding up is to a clock.

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Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius consists in the working of the free intellect., and as a consequence the productions of genius serve no useful purpose. The work of genius may be music, philosophy, painting, or poetry; it is nothing for use or profit. To be useless and unprofitable is one of the characteristics of genius; it is their patent of nobility.

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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.

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Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

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Something of great importance now past is inferior to something of little importance now present, in that the latter is a reality, and related to the former as something to nothing.

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There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

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You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.

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Because Christian morality leaves animals out of account, they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals; they are mere 'things,' mere means to any ends whatsoever. They can therefore be used for vivisection, hunting, coursing, bullfights, and horse racing, and can be whipped to death as they struggle along with heavy carts of stone. Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!

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Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

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You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak.

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To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish

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Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

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What people commonly call Fate is, as a general rule, nothing but their own stupid and foolish conduct.

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How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?

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Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars.

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In their hearts women think that it is men's business to earn money and theirs to spend it.

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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.

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The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.

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The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.

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