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The spirit of the poet craves spectators... even if only buffaloes.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.
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Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.
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When I seek another word for 'music', I never find any other word than 'Venice'
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All rejection and negation indicates a deficiency in fertility: fundamentally, if only we were good plowland we would allow nothing to go unused, and in every thing, event, and person we would welcome manure, rain, or sunshine.
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What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.
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It is no doubt possible to fly--but first you must know how to dance like an angel.
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We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption, but how near or distant that is, nobody knows- not even God.
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Women are constituted in such a way that all truth (regarding men, love, children, society, the purpose of life) disgusts them, and in such a way that they try to revenge themselves on anyone who opens their eyes.
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Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.
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