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The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.
One does not know - cannot know - the best that is in one.
What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.
You never exist quite so much as when you are not thinking
Only he who is man enough will release the woman in woman.
Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once!
Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.
The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.
What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.
To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
Every day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing.
A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.
From people who merely pray we must become people who bless.
Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.
Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day.
Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.
Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.
The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.
The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self.
Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal.
Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.
He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.
Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
I am really very, very tired of everything - more than tired.
Whom do you call bad?--Those who always want to induce shame.
I love the great despisers because they are the great adorers.
Who has not for the sake of his reputation sacrificed himself?
Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave.
A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.
Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.
Real dancers are the ones who can hear the music in their soul.
For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell.
Everything becomes and recurs eternally - escape is impossible!
In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible.
Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.