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Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.
One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.
One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.
Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce.
Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
I love him who wants to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes.
Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre.
If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.
It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
Generally speaking, the greater a woman's beauty, the greater her modesty.
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.
Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.
When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.
Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.
I hate who steals my solitude, without really offer me in exchange company.
The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.
It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth inside out into the light.
I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.
We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.
Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.
We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again.
Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing.
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.
Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone.
Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it.
Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
We are so fond of being out among nature, because it has no opinions about us.
Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?
Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd.
You know a moment is important when it is making your mind go numb with beauty.
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.
Be careful who you choose as your enemy because that's who you become most like.
If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.