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He has drawn back, only in order to have enough room for his leap
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience: - they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity.
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So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.
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And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant.
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It is inhuman to bless where one is cursed.
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One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.
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Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.
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At heart I am a warrior.
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The spirit of the poet craves spectators... even if only buffaloes.
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Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
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Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?
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But like infection is the petty thought: it creeps and hides, and wants to be nowhere--until the whole body is decayed and withered by the petty infection... Thus spoke Zarathustra.
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Every man in creating the beautiful appearance of the dream worlds is a perfect artist.
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A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death.
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He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.
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