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Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss.

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There's no defense against stupidity.

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Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.

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One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well why he is honest-for the same reasons another person prefers illusion and dissimulation.

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He who strays from the customary becomes a sacrifice to the extraordinary; he who keeps to the customary becomes its slave. He iscondemned to perish in either case.

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Alas! There cometh the time when man will no longer give birth to any star. Alas! There cometh the time of the most despicable man, who can no longer despise himself.

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In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

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If you want me to believe in your redeemer, you are going to have to look a lot more redeemed.

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As soon as we climb higher than those who had at one time admired us, we appear to them as though we have sunken and fallen down:for, in any event, they had at one time supposed that they were with us (even if it were through us) on the heights.

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The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer.

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Almost two thousand years, and no new god!

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Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.

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There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius.

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Over immense periods of time the intellect produced nothing but errors. A few of these proved to be useful and helped to preserve the species: those who hit upon or inherited these had better luck in their struggle for themselves and their progeny. Such erroneous articles of faith... include the following: that there are things, substances, bodies; that a thing is what it appears to be; that our will is free; that what is good for me is also good in itself.

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Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.

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Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of despair, just as subordination to a prince can be: in itself it is nothing moral.

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The creation of freedom for oneself and a sacred "No" even to duty -- for that, my brothers, the lion is needed.

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In this state one enriches everything out of one's own fullness: whatever one sees, whatever wills is seen swelled, taut, strong, overloaded with strength. A man in this state transforms things until they mirror his power—until they are reflections of his perfection. This having to transform into perfection is—art.

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If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you.

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His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in.

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