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All I need is a sheet of paperand something to write with, and thenI can turn the world upside down.

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It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

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To be incapable of taking one’s enemies, one’s accidents, even one’s misdeeds seriously for very long - that is the sign of strong full natures in who...more

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A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

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The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

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Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

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I praise, I do not reproach, [nihilism's] arrival. I believe it is one of the greatest crises, a moment of the deepest self-reflection of humanity. Wh...more

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The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.

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He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart.

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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

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But how can we venture to reprove or praise the universe! Let us beware of attributing to it heartlessness and unreason or their opposites: it is neit...more

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No one is accountable for existing at all, or for being constituted as he is, or for living in the circumstances and surroundings in which he lives. T...more

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I praise, I do not reproach, [nihilism's] arrival. I believe it is one of the greatest crises, a moment of the deepest self-reflection of humanity. Wh...more

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Youth's longing misconceived inconsistency.Those whom I deemedChanged to my kin, the friends of whom I dreamed,Have aged and lost our old affinity:One...more

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The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.