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Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.

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Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The ability to suffer is a small matter: in that line, weak women and even slaves often attain masterliness. But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of it that is great, that belongs to greatness.

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The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is to hear.

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Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of a spirit should be measured according to how much of the 'truth' one could still barely endure- or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified.

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Everything that is ponderous, vicious and pompously clumsy, all long-winded and wearying kinds of style, are developed in great variety among Germans.

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To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the wretchedness of the vanquished.

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And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie before them as a mirror with a hundred facets.

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Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!

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Only individuals have a sense of responsibility.

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In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing so they contribute to making their fatherland, abandoned by spirit, into the gaping jaws of Asia that would like to swallow our little Europe.

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As far as Germany extends it ruins culture.

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Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.

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Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.

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When I was twelve years old I thought up an odd trinity: namely, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Devil. My inference wasthat God, in contemplating himself, created the second person of the godhead; but that, in order to be able to contemplate himself, he had to contemplate, and thus to create, his opposite.--With this I began to do philosophy.

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If one seeks relief from unbearable pressure, one is to eat hashish.

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Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes.

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Ah, only he who knows where he sails, knows what wind is good, and a fair wind for him.

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When one thinks profusely and cleverly, not only his face but his body too takes on a clever appearance.

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Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality.

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So long as the spectator has to figure out the meaning of this or that person, or the presuppositions of this or that conflict of inclinations and purposes, he cannot become completely absorbed in the activities and sufferings of the chief characters or feel breathless pity and fear.

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