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The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means to his ends or does not acknowledge them at all.

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When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.

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One is not converted to christianity; one must be morbid enough for it.

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I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.

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For let us not underestimate the Christian: the Christian, false to the point of innocence, is far above the ape-regarding Christians, a well known theory of descent becomes a mere compliment.

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Yet where is your inner value when you no longer know what it is to breathe freely; when you no longer have freedom over your own selves

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Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession.

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The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.

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Why couldn't the world that concerns us- be a fiction? And if somebody asked, 'but to be a fiction there surely belongs an author?'- couldn't one answer simply: 'Why? Doesn't this "belongs" perhaps belong to the fiction, too?'

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Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.

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There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

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Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

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Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

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The arrogance that accompanies merit offends us even more than the arrogance of people who are lacking in merit: since merit itself offends us.

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There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by piety to a seemingly higher order of things, and thereby to retain their satisfaction with the actual world in which they find it difficult enough to live - this very difficulty being necessary.

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Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them, is not something dreadful also.

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Almost two thousand years, and no new god!

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Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

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Nothing can be done about it: every master has but a single pupil--and he will not stay loyal to him--for he is also destined to become a master.

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As an artist one has no home in Europe except in Paris.

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