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Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

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He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

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To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

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Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

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When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

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The lie is a condition of life.

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The future influences the present just as much as the past.

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When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

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Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

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Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

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When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

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The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!

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In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

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And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

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It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

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Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

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One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

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