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When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.
The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.
What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
Capital is to the progress of society what gas is to a car.
Every day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing.
Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.
The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.
A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.
From people who merely pray we must become people who bless.
Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day.
Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
I am really very, very tired of everything - more than tired.
Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal.
Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.
He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.
Whom do you call bad?--Those who always want to induce shame.
The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self.
Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave.
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
Who has not for the sake of his reputation sacrificed himself?
A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell.
In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.
Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.
Real dancers are the ones who can hear the music in their soul.
For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible.
Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.
Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?
Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.
No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Those who are devoid of purpose will make the void their purpose.
He has drawn back, only in order to have enough room for his leap
A nation that still believes in itself holds fast to its own god.
If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes.
How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?
One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.
'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?