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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

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There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication.

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Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth.

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The perfect woman perpetrates literature as she perpetrates a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, glancing around to see whether anybody notices--and to make sure that somebody notices.

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Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.

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Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.

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Idleness is the parent of psychology.

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We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating.

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one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

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Asceticism is the right way of thinking for those who have to extirpate their sensual drives because they are ravening beasts of prey. But only for those!

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And if ye cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least its warriors. They are the companions and forerunners of such saintship.

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And so do you suppose it must be a piece-work because it has been given to you (and could only be given to you) in pieces?

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Better know nothing than half-know many things.

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Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

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Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some stupidity in all praise. I generally estimate praise too poorly and blame too highly.

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Men were considered "free" only so that they might be considered guilty - could be judged and punished: consequently, every act had to be considered as willed, and the origin of every act had to be considered as lying within the consciousness (and thus the most fundamental psychological deception was made the principle of psychology itself).

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Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks -- those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest.

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One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power.

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Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before.

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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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