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Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#art #conquest #imitation #merely #metaphysical

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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In everything one thing is impossible: rationality. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. ↗

— Anais Nin

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