Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883)

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You shall not steal! You shall not kill! Such words were once called holy; before them people bowrd their knees and heads, and removed their shoes. But I ask you: where have there ever been better thieves and killers in the world than such holy words have been? Is there not in all of life itself - robbing and killing? And when such words were called holy, was not truth itself thereby - killed?

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You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should ou have your pride in the morning nad your resignation in the evening?

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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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I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.

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God is a thought that makes crooked all that is straight.

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The secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships out into uncharted seas! Live in conflict with your equals and with yourselves! Be robbers and ravagers as soon as you ca not be rulers and owners, you men of knowledge! The time will soon past when you could be content to live concealed int he woods like timid deer!

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But this word will I say to my enemies: What is all manslaughter in comparison with what you have done to me!

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And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!

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O my brothers, am I then cruel? But I say: that which is falling should also be pushed!

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Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.

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I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to be pushed in order to move. Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me.

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A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go.

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Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.

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Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.

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