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| There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of my childhood was a day of public rejoicing. |
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| There would be more good marriages if the marriage partners didn't live together. |
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| These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all they do. |
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| These small things -- nutrition, place, climate, recreation, the whole casuistry of selfishness -- are inconceivably more important than everything one has taken to be important so far. |
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| This has given me the greatest trouble and still does: to realize that what things are called is incomparably more important than what they are. The reputation, name, and appearance, the usual measure and weight of a thing, what it counts for -- originally almost always wrong and arbitrary, thrown over things like a dress and altogether foreign to their nature and even to their skin -- all this grows from generation unto generation, merely because people believe in it, until it gradually grows to be part of the thing and turns into its very body: what at first was appearance becomes in the end, almost invariably, the essence and is effective as such! |
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| This indictment of Christianity I will write on all walls, wherever there are walls - I have letters to make even the blind see |
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| This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver. |
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| This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves. |
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| This life as you live it now and have lived it, you will have to live again and again, times without number, and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and all the unspeakably small and great in your life must return to you and everything in the same series and sequence -- and in the same way this spider and this moonlight among the trees, and this same way this moment and I myself. The eternal hour glass of existence will be turned again and again -- and you with it, you dust of dust! |
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| This secret spoke Life herself unto me: "Behold," said she, "I am that which must ever surpass itself." |
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| Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed -- it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who call into question and poison most dangerously our trust in life, in man, and in ourselves. |
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| Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge |
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| Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler. |
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| Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these. |
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| Thoughts that come with doves' footsteps guide the world. |
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| To become wise, one must "wish" to have certain experiences and run, as it were, into their gaping jaws. This, of course, is very dangerous; many a wise guy has been swallowed. |
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| To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult. |
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| To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write. |
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| To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled -- because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance. |
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| To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity. |
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