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We must beware of one who is in a passion against us as of one who has once sought our life; for the fact that we still live is due to the absence of power to kill, - if looks could kill, we should have been dead long ago.

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

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One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called "freedom."

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There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by piety to a seemingly higher order of things, and thereby to retain their satisfaction with the actual world in which they find it difficult enough to live - this very difficulty being necessary.

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My doctrine is: Live that thou mayest desire to live again—that is thy duty—for in any case thou wilt live again!

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Insects sting, not in malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics: they desire our blood, not our pain.

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The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!

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Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.

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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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Oh, those Greeks! They knew how to live. What is required for that is to stop courageously at the surface, the fold, the skin, to adore appearance, to believe in forms, tones, words, in the whole Olympus of appearance. Those Greeks were superficial—out of profundity.

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There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

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Underneath this reality in which we live and have our being, another and altogether different reality lies concealed...

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People who live in an age of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know that there are other kinds of murder than by dagger or assault; they also know that whatever is well said is believed...

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I love those who do not know how to live, except by going under, for they are those who cross over.

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When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

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