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Of the spirit of women. - The spiritual power of a woman is best demonstrated by her sacrificing her own spirit to that of a man out of love of him an...more

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In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering in innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented ...more

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They are now informing me that not only are they better than the powerful, the masters of the world whose spittle they have to lick (not from fear, no...more

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We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge--and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves--how could it happen that we should ever find o...more

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To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [......more

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Generally speaking, punishment makes men hard and cold; it concentrates; it sharpens the feeling of alienation; it strengthens the power of resistance

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Every kind of contempt for sex, every impurification of it by means of the concept "impure", is the crime par excellence against life--is the real sin...more

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The conviction reigns that it is only through the sacrifices and accomplishments of the ancestors that the tribe exists--and that one has to pay them ...more

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But I need solitude--which is to say, recovery, return to myself, the breath of a free, light, playful air.

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You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, whic...more

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What really arouses indignation against suffering is not suffering as such but the senselessness of suffering...

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today we read of Don Quixote with a bitter taste in the mouth, it isalmost an ordeal, which would make us seem very strange and incomprehensibleto the...more

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This workshop where ideals are manufactured--it seems to me it stinks of so many lies

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Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.... Through words and concepts w...more

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One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.