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We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.
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What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.
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Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there stands a mighty ruler. an unknown sage - whose name is self. In yourt body he dwells he is your body. There is more reason in your body than in your best wisdom.
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Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.
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A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie.
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The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.
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Acknowledge your will and speak to us all, This alone is what I will to be! Hang your own penal code up above you: we want to be its enforcers!
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Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox.
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In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.
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In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.
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Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.
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