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What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended by a thin thread.

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Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much transformation.

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In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum.

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Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

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Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

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In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad intellectual conscience was at least exposed by that!

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A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly consolidated mediocrity.

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And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own doctrine comes out of your own fire.

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You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake.

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Man makes god in his own image.

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I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No.

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Truth is only an illusion we have forgotten is an illusion.

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Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.

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What Europe owes to the Jews? - Many things, good and bad, and above all one thing of the nature both of the best and the worst: the grand style in morality, the fearfulness and majesty of infinite demands, of infinite significations, the whole Romanticism and sublimity of moral questionableness - and consequently just the most attractive, ensnaring, and exquisite element in those iridescences and allurements to life, in the aftersheen of which the sky of our European culture, its evening sky, now glows - perhaps glows out.

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I can be thrown by the wayside, but I'm looking at the stars.

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Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them.

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And when your soul becometh great, then doth it become haughty, and in your sublimity there is wickedness.

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

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I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.

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The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.

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