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Man And Man's Earth Are Unexhausted And Undiscovered. Wake And Listen! Verily, The Earth Shall Yet Be A Source Of Recovery. Remain Faithful To The Earth, With The Power Of Your Virtue. Let Your Gift-giving Love And Your Knowledge Serve The Meaning Of The Earth.

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Man And Man's Earth

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Man And Man's Earth Are Unexhausted And Undiscovered. Wake And Listen! Verily, The Earth Shall Yet Be A Source Of Recovery. Remain Faithful To The Earth, With The Power Of Your Virtue. Let Your Gift-giving Love And Your Knowledge Serve The Meaning Of The Earth.

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Ye Are Ugly? Well Then, My Brethren, Take The Sublime About You, The Mantle Of The Ugly!

The Most Unambiguous Sign That A Person Holds Men In Low Esteem Is This, That He Either Acknowledges Them Merely As Means To His Ends Or Does Not Acknowledge Them At All.

Pain Makes Hens And Poets Cackle.

What? You Seek Something? You Wish To Multiply Yourself Tenfold, A Hundredfold? You Seek Followers? Seek Zeros!

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The Best Author Will Be The One Who Is Ashamed To Become A Writer.

Sit As Little As Possible. Give No Credence To Any Thought That Was Not Born Outdoors While Moving About Freely.

A Friend Whose Hopes We Cannot Satisfy Is A Friend We Would Rather Have As An Enemy.

Without Music, Life Would Be A Mistake.

The Thirst For Equality Can Express Itself Either As A Desire To Draw Everyone Down To One's Level, Or To Raise Oneself And Everyone Else Up.

It Is The Privilege Of Greatness To Confer Intense Happiness With Insignificant Gifts.

Here The Ways Of Men Divide. If You Wish To Strive For Peace Of Soul And Happiness, Then Believe; If You Wish To Be A Disciple Of Truth, Then Inquire.

As Though "the Truth" Were Such An Innocent And Incompetent Creature As To Require Protectors!

Your God Is Dead And Only The Ignorant Weep. And If You Claim There Is A Hell, Then We Shall Meet There!

I Am Not A Man, I Am Dynamite!

A Philosophical Mythology Lies Concealed In Language, Which Breaks Out Again At Every Moment, No Matter How Cautious We May Be.

How Do You Expect To Learn To Dance When You Have Not Even Learned To Walk! And Above The Dancer Is Still The Flyer And His Bliss.

There Are Horrible People Who, Instead Of Solving A Problem, Tangle It Up And Make It Harder To Solve For Anyone Who Wants To Deal With It. Whoever Does Not Know How To Hit The Nail On The Head Should Be Asked Not To Hit It At All.

When A Man Is In Love He Endures More Than At Other Times; He Submits To Everything.

He Who Climbeth On The Highest Mountains, Laugheth At All Tragic Plays And Tragic Realities.

Many Brief Follies--that Is What You Call Love. And Your Marriage Puts An End To Many Brief Follies, With A Single Long Stupidity.

Posthumous Men-myself, For Example-are Not As Well Understood As Timely Ones, But We Are Listened To Better. More Precisely: We Are Never Understood-hence Our Authority.

Some Men Are Born Posthumously.

I Need Solitude, Which Is To Say, Recovery, Return To My Self, The Breath Of A Free, Light, Playful Air.

One Must Never Have Spared Oneself, One Must Have Acquired Hardness As A Habit To Be Cheerful And In Good Spirits In The Midst Of Nothing But Hard Truths.

Death Is Close Enough At Hand So We Do Not Need To Be Afraid Of Life.

Mastery.- We Have Reached Mastery When We Neither Mistake Nor Hesitate In The Achievement.

Doing Ill To Those On Whom We Have To Make Our Power Felt; For Pain Is A Far More Sensitive Means For That Purpose Than Pleasure: Pain Always Asks Concerning The Cause, While Pleasure Is Inclined To Keep Within Itself And Not Look Backward.

The Church Is Precisely That Against Which Jesus Preached -- And Against Which He Taught His Disciples To Fight.

Away From God And Gods Did This Will Lure Me: What Would There Be To Create If Gods Existed?

When A Man Reaches His Maturity In Understanding And In Years, The Feeling Comes Over Him That His Father Was Wrong To Beget Him.

Never To Read Another Book That Was Born And Baptized (with Ink) At The Same Time.

As Soon As A Religion Comes To Dominate It Has As Its Opponents All Those Who Would Have Been Its First Disciples.

Those Are My Enemies: They Want To Overthrow And To Construct Nothing Themselves. They Say: "all That Is Worthless"--and Want To Create No Value Themselves.

Great Things Demand That We Either Remain Silent About Them Or Speak In A Great Manner: In A Great Manner, That Is-cynically And With Innocence.

Not To Be Cowardly When It Comes To Our Own Actions! Not To Leave Them In The Lurch!--the Sting Of Conscience Is Indecent.

What Is Wanted - Whether This Is Admitted Or Not - Is Nothing Less Than A Fundamental Remolding, Indeed Weakening And Abolition Of The Individual: One Never Tires Of Enumerating And Indicating All That Is Evil And Inimical, Prodigal, Costly, Extravagant In The Form Individual Existence Has Assumed Hitherto, One Hopes To Manage More Cheaply, More Safely, More Equitably, More Uniformly If There Exist Only Large Bodies And Their Members.

Morality Is: The Mediocre Are Worth More Than The Exceptions ... I Abhore Christianity With A Deadly Hatred.

The Teacher As A Necessary Evil. Let Us Have As Few People As Possible Between The Productive Minds And The Hungry And Recipient Minds! The Middlemen Almost Unconsciously Adulterate The Food Which They Supply. It Is Because Of Teachers That So Little Is Learned, And That So Badly.

What Is The Ape To Man? A Laughing-stock Or A Painful Embarrassment. And Just That Shall Man Be For The Superman: A Laughing-stock Or A Painful Embarrassment.

Once Upon A Time, In Some Out Of The Way Corner Of That Universe Which Is Dispersed Into Numberless Twinkling Solar Systems, There Was A Star Upon Which Clever Beasts Invented Knowing.

It Is Not When Truth Is Dirty, But When It Is Shallow, That The Lover Of Knowledge Is Reluctant To Step Into Its Waters.

"state," I Call It, Where They All Drink Poison, The Good And The Wicked; "state," Where They All Lose Themselves, The Good And The Wicked; "state," Where They All Call Their Slow Suicide-"life."

You I Advise Not To Work, But To Fight. You I Advise Not To Peace, But To Victory. Let Your Work Be A Fight, Let Your Peace Be A Victory!

Pitch-black Winter Nights Live In My Bones.

Scholarship Has The Same Relationship To Wisdom As Righteousness Has To Holiness: It Is Cold And Dry, It Is Loveless And Knows Nodeep Feelings Of Inadequacy Or Longing.

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The Code Of Manu Differs From The Bible. By Means Of It The Nobles, The Philosophers, And The Warriors Keep The Whip Hand Over The Majority. It Is Full Of Noble Valuations; It Shows A Feeling Of Perfection, An Acceptance Of Life, And Triumphant Feeling Toward Self And Life.

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The Greatest Events-they Are Not Our Loudest But Our Stillest Hours.

On All The Walls, Wherever Walls Exist, I Will Inscribe This Eternal Indictment Of Christianity--i Have Letters To Make Even Blindmen See.... I Call Christianity The Single Great Curse, The Single Great Innermost Depravity, The Single Great Instinct Of Revenge, For Which No Means Is Poisonous, Secretive, Subterranean, Small Enough--i Call It Mankind's Single Immortal Blemish.... And We Reckon Time From The Dies Nefastus With Which This Calamity Arose--following Christianity's First Day!--why Not Following Its Last Day, Instead?--following Today?--transvaluation Of All Values!

Your Soul Will Be Dead Even Before Your Body: Fear Nothing Further.

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What We Experience In Dreams - Assuming That We Experience It Often - Belongs In The End Just As Much To The Over-all Economy Of Our Soul As Anything Experienced "actually": We Are Richer Or Poorer On Account Of It.

New Ways I Go, A New Speech Comes To Me; Weary I Grow, Like All Creators, Of The Old Tongues. My Spirit No Longer Wants To Walk On Worn Soles.

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I Do Not Mean To Moralise But To Those Who Do, I Would Give This Advice : If You Mean Ultimately To Deprive The Best Things And States Of All All Honour And Worth Then Continue To Talk About Them As You Have Been Doing!

The Will To Overcome An Emotion, Is Ultimately Only The Will Of Another, Or Of Several Other, Emotions.

Beyond Good And Evil

Words Are But Symbols For The Relations Of Things To One Another And To Us; Nowhere Do They Touch Upon Absolute Truth.

If A Man Wishes To Rid Himself Of A Feeling Of Unbearable Oppression, He May Have To Take Hashish.

To Experience A Thing As Beautiful Means: To Experience It Necessarily Wrongly.

What Saved Me Then? Nothing But Pregnancy. And Each Time After I Had Given Birth To My Work My Life Hung Suspended By A Thin Thread.

One Does Not Want To Be Deceived, Under The Supposition That It Is Injurious, Dangerous, Or Fatal To Be Deceived.

The Higher Its Type, The More Rarely A Thing Succeeds.

"ego," Sayest Thou, And Art Proud Of That Word. But The Greater Thing - In Which Thou Art Unwilling To Believe - Is Thy Body With Its Big Sagacity; It Saith Not "ego," But Doeth It.

Creating-that Is The Great Salvation From Suffering.

Creation Is The Great Redemption From Suffering And All Life's Growing Light. But The Creator Must Be Suffering If Needed And Accept Much Change.

Shared Joys Make A Friend, Not Shared Sufferings.

Woman Was God's Second Mistake.

Why Is It That Wellnesses Are Not As Contagious As Illnesses--generally Speaking, But Also Especially Regarding Taste? Or Are There Epidemics Of Health?

I Was In Darkness, But I Took Three Steps And Found Myself In Paradise. The First Step Was A Good Thought, The Second, A Good Word; And The Third, A Good Deed.

It Is Certainly Not The Least Charm Of A Theory That It Is Refutable.

If You Have Hitherto Believed That Life Was One Of The Highest Value And Now See Yourselves Disappointed, Do You At Once Have To Reduce It To The Lowest Possible Price?

Something Unappeased, Unappeasable, Is Within Me.

We Should Not Talk About Our Friends: Otherwise We Will Talk Away The Feeling Of Friendship.

We Labour At Our Daily Work More Ardently And Thoughtlessly Than Is Necessary To Sustain Our Life Because It Is Even More Necessary Not To Have Leisure To Stop And Think. Haste Is Universal Because Everyone Is In Flight From Himself.

Yet Tell Me, My Brothers: If A Goal For Humanity Is Still Lacking, Is There Not Still Lacking--humanity Itself?

Anti-theses.- The Most Senile Thing Ever Thought About Man Is Contained In The Celebrated Saying 'the Ego Is Always Hateful'; The Most Childish Is The Even More Celebrated 'love Thy Neighbor As Thyself'. - In The Former, Knowledge Of Human Nature Has Ceased, In The Latter It Has Not Yet Even Begun.

Necessity Is An Interpretation, Not A Fact.

All Names Of Good And Evil Are Images; They Do Not Speak Out, They Only Hint. He Is A Fool Who Seeks Knowledge From Them.

Prejudice Of The Learned. - The Learned Judge Correctly That People Of All Ages Have Believed They Know What Is Good And Evil, Praise- And Blameworthy. But It Is A Prejudice Of The Learned That We Now Know Better Than Any Other Age.

Oh Great Star! What Would Your Happiness Be If You Did Not Have Us To Shine For?

God Is Dead. God Remains Dead. And We Have Killed Him. How Shall We Comfort Ourselves, The Murderers Of All Murderers? What Was Holiest And Mightiest Of All That The World Has Yet Owned Has Bled To Death Under Our Knives: Who Will Wipe This Blood Off Us? What Water Is There For Us To Clean Ourselves? What Festivals Of Atonement, What Sacred Games Shall We Have To Invent? Is Not The Greatness Of This Deed Too Great For Us? Must We Ourselves Not Become Gods Simply To Appear Worthy Of It?

A Beautiful Woman Seductively Dressed Will Never Catch Cold No Matter How Low-cut Her Gown.

A Small Revenge Is More Human Than No Revenge At All.

These Small Things - Nutrition, Place, Climate, Recreation, The Whole Casuistry Of Selfishness - Are Inconceivably More Important Than Everything One Has Taken To Be Important So Far.

How Is Freedom Measured, In Individuals As In Nations? By The Resistance Which Has To Be Overcome, By The Effort It Costs To Stay Aloft. One Would Have To Seek The Highest Type Of Free Man Where The Greatest Resistance Is Constantly Being Overcome: Five Steps From Tyranny, Near The Threshold Of The Danger Of Servitude.

As Regards The Celebrated Struggle For Life, It Seems To Me For The Present To Have Been Rather Asserted Than Proved. It Does Occur, But As The Exception; The General Aspect Of Life Is Not Hunger And Distress, But Rather Wealth, Luxury, Even Absurd Prodigality -- Where There Is A Struggle It Is A Struggle For Power.

The Surest Sign That Two People No Longer Speak The Same Language Is That Both Say Ironic Things To One Another But That Neither Senses The Irony.

Women Want To Serve, And This Is Where Their Happiness Lies: But The Free Spirit Does Not Want To Be Served, And This Is Where Hishappiness Lies.

I Love Those Who Do Not Know How To Live For Today.

Does Wisdom Perhaps Appear On The Earth As A Raven Which Is Inspired By The Smell Of Carrion?

Willing Sets You Free: That Is The True Doctrine Of Will And Freedom--thus Zarathustra Instructs You.

No Man Ever Wrote More Eloquently And Luminously [than Heraclitus].

Books For General Reading Always Smell Bad; The Odor Of Common People Hangs Around Them.

Strong Currents Drag Many Stones And Bushes Along With Them, Strong Intellects Many Dense And Muddled Minds.

People Who, Out Of An Inborn Moderation, Leave Every Glass Standing Only Half-emptied Refuse To Admit That Everything In The World Has Its Sediments And Dregs.

We Criticize A Thinker More Acutely When He Advances A Proposition That Is Disagreeable To Us; And Yet It Would Be More Reasonableto Do So When His Proposition Is Agreeable To Us.

In The Whole Of The New Testament There Is Not One Joke, That Fact Alone Would Invalidate Any Book.

He Who Bears Injustice Alone Is Terrible To Behold.

Good Writers Have Two Things In Common: They Prefer To Be Understood Rather Than Admired; And They Do Not Write For Knowing And Over-acute Readers.

The Criminal Is Quite Frequently Not Equal To His Deed: He Belittles And Slanders It.

Let Old Ones Go. Dont Be A Memory-monger! Once You Were Young──now You Are Even Younger.

Whoever Fights Monsters Should See To It That In The Process He Does Not Become A Monster. And If You Gaze Long Enough Into An Abyss, The Abyss Will Gaze Back Into You.

He Who Does Not Lie Does Not Know What Truth Is.

Happiness Is The Feeling That Power Increases - That Resistance Is Being Overcome.

There Will Always Be Rocks In The Road Ahead Of Us. They Will Be Stumbling Blocks Or Stepping Stones; It All Depends On How You Use Them.

Words Of Wisdom

Time Flies Apace-we Would Fain Believe That Everything Flies Forward With It.

Our Vanity Is Hardest To Wound Precisely When Our Pride Has Just Been Wounded.

To Be Natural Means To Dare To Be As Immoral As Nature Is.

Seducing One's Neighbor To A Good Opinion And Then Afterwards Believing Devoutly In This Neighbor's Opinion--who Can Match Women In This Clever Ploy?

We Have No Dreams At All Or Interesting Ones. We Should Learn To Be Awake The Same Way- Not At All Or In An Interesting Manner

There Are Slavish Souls Who Carry Their Appreciation For Favors Done Them So Far That They Strangle Themselves With The Rope Of Gratitude.

What I Understand By "philosopher": A Terrible Explosive In The Presence Of Which Everything Is In Danger.

The Great Works Are Produced In Such An Ecstasy Of Love That They Must Always Be Unworthy Of It, However Great Their Worth Otherwise.

Many Die Too Late, And Some Die Too Early. Yet Strangers Soundeth The Precept: "die At The Right Time!"

The Demand To Be Loved Is The Greatest Of All Arrogant Presumptions.

Inspirational Love

What Is Evil?-whatever Springs From Weakness.

One Is Necessary, One Is A Piece Of Fate, One Belongs To The Whole, One Is The Whole - There Exists Nothing Which Could Judge, Measure, Compare, Condemn Our Being, For That Would Be To Judge, Measure, Compare, Condemn The Whole...but Nothing Exists Apart From The Whole!

It Is A Distinction To Have Many Virtues, But A Hard Lot.

Reality Is Captured In The Categorical Nets Of Language Only At The Expense Of Fatal Distortion.

You Highest Men Whom I Have Ever Seen! This Is My Suspicion About You And My Secret Laughter: I Guess That You Would Call My Superman--a Devil!

Animals Know Nothing Of Themselves, And They Also Know Nothing Of The World.

No One Lies So Boldly As The Man Who Is Indignant.

We Do Not Place Especial Value On The Possession Of A Virtue Until We Notice Its Total Absence In Our Opponent.

When Marrying, Ask Yourself This Question: Do You Believe That You Will Be Able To Converse Well With This Person Into Your Old Age? Everything Else In Marriage Is Transitory.

Woman Learns To Hate To The Extent To Which Her Charms Decrease.

All Beings So Far Have Created Something Beyond Themselves; And Do You Want To Be The Ebb Of This Great Flood And Even Go Back To The Beasts Rather Than Overcome Man? What Is The Ape To Man? A Laughingstock Or A Painful Embarrassment. And Man Shall Be Just That For The Overman: A Laughingstock Or A Painful Embarrassment.

One Will Seldom Go Wrong If One Attributes Extreme Actions To Vanity, Average Ones To Habit, And Pretty Ones To Fear.

It Is Only Those Who Know How To Feel That "this Is Not Good" Who Devise Improvements.

It Is The Powerful Who Know How To Honour, It Is Their Art, Their Domain For Invention.

Some People Throw A Bit Of Their Personality After Their Bad Arguments, As If That Might Straighten Their Paths And Turn Them Into Right And Good Arguments-just As A Man In A Bowling Alley, After He Has Let Go Of The Ball, Still Tries To Direct It With Gestures.

You Say That I Should Be Your Teacher! See To It That I Am Your Pinion And Not Your Brake.

The Devil Has The Broadest Perspectives For God; Therefore, He Keeps So Far Away From God -- The Devil Being The Most Ancient Friend Of Wisdom

God Is A Thought Who Makes Crooked All That Is Straight.

Whoever Commits To Paper What He Suffers Becomes A Melancholy Author: But He Becomes A Serious Author When He Tells Us What He Suffered And Why He Now Reposes In Joy.

The Noble Soul Reveres Itself

I Presume That You Are Compassionate: To Be Without Pity Means To Be Sick In Body And Spirit. But One Should Have Spirit In Abundance, So As To Be Permitted To Be Compassionate! For Your Pity Is Detrimental To You And To Everyone.

Heraclitus Was An Opponent Of All Democratic Parties.

The Deeper Minds Of All Ages Have Had Pity For Animals.

At Times, Our Strengths Propel Us So Far Forward We Can No Longer Endure Our Weaknesses And Perish From Them.

To Be Moral, Correct, And Virtuous Is To Be Obedient To An Old Established Law And Custom.

Though The Favourites Of The Gods Die Young, They Also Live Eternally In The Company Of Gods

Improvements Are Invented Only By Those Who Can Feel That Something Is Not Good.

Error Has Made Animals Into Men; Is Truth In A Position To Make Men Into Animals Again?

Every Man Has His Price. This Is Not True. But For Every Man There Exists A Bait Which He Cannot Resist Swallowing.

Undeserved Praise Causes More Pangs Of Conscience Later Than Undeserved Blame, But Probably Only For This Reason, That Our Power Of Judgment Are More Completely Exposed By Being Over Praised Than By Being Unjustly Underestimated.

The Masters Have Been Done Away With; The Morality Of The Common Man Has Triumphed.

The Broad Effects Which Can Be Obtained By Punishment In Man And Beast, Are The Increase Of Fear, The Sharpening Of The Sense Of Cunning, The Mastery Of The Desires; So It Is That Punishment Tames Man, But Does Not Make Him "better.".

Chastity Is A Virtue With Some, But With Many It Is Almost A Vice.

To The Mean All Becomes Mean.

In Solitude There Grows What Anyone Brings Into It, The Inner Beast Too. Therefore Solitude Is Inadvisable To Many.

Has Anyone...any Distinct Notion Of What Poets Of A Stronger Age Understood By The Word Inspiration? ... There Is An Ecstasy Such That The Immese Strain Of It Is Sometimes Relaxed By A Flood Of Tears, Along With Which One's Steps Either Rush Or Involuntarily Lag, Alternately. There Is The Feeling That One Is Completely Out Of Hand, With The Very Distinct Consciousness Of An Endless Number Of Fine Thrills And Quiverings To The Very Toes... Everything Happens Quite Involuntarily, As If In A Tempestuous Outburst Of Freedom, Of Absoluteness, Of Power And Divinity.

The Lonely One Offers His Hand Too Quickly To Whomever He Encounters.

All That The World Most Needs Today, Is Combined In The Most Seductive Manner In His Art, — The Three Great Stimulants Of Exhausted People: Brutality, Artificiality And Innocence (idiocy).

There Is No Pre-established Harmony Between The Furtherance Of Truth And The Well-being Of Mankind.

Mankind Must Work Continually To Produce Individual Great Human Beings - This And Nothing Else Is The Task... For The Question Is This : How Can Your Life, The Individual Life, Retain The Highest Value, The Deepest Significance? Only By Living For The Good Of The Rarest And Most Valuable Specimens.

Morality Is The Best Of All Devices For Leading Mankind By The Nose.

As A Human Being Plato Mingles Regal, Exclusive, And Self-contained Features With Melancholy Compassion.

Cynicism Is The Only Form In Which Base Souls Approach Honesty.

The Press, The Machine, The Railway, The Telegraph Are Premises Whose Thousand-year Conclusion No One Has Yet Dared To Draw.

I Awoke You From Your Sleep Because I Saw That You Were Having A Nightmare. And Now You Are Cross And Say To Me: "what Are We Supposed To Do Now? Everything Is Still Night!" You Ingrates! You Should Go To Sleep Again And Dream Better.

No One Dies Of Fatal Truths Nowadays: There Are Too Many Antidotes.

We Attack Not Only To Hurt Someone, To Defeat Him, But Perhaps Also Simply To Become Conscious Of Our Own Strength.

Just As Soon As We Notice That Someone Has To Force Himself To Pay Attention When Dealing And Talking With Us, We Have A Valid Demonstration That He Does Not Love Us Or That He Does Not Love Us Anymore.

The Purpose Of Punishment Is To Improve Those Who Do The Punishing--that Is The Final Recourse Of Those Who Support Punishment.

Man Is The Only Animal That Must Be Encouraged To Live.

Madness Is Not A Consequence Of Uncertainty But Of Certainty.

Evaluation Is Creation: Hear It, You Creators! Evaluating Is Itself The Most Valuable Treasure Of All That We Value. It Is Only Through Evaluation That Value Exists: And Without Evaluation The Nut Of Existence Would Be Hollow. Hear It, You Creators!

Man, A Hybrid Of Plant And Ghost.

Sometimes It Is Harder To Accede To A Thing Than It Is To See Its Truth.

Has A Woman Who Knew She Was Well-dressed Ever Caught A Cold?

Success Has Always Been The Greatest Liar - And The "work" Itself Is A Success; The Great Statesman, The Conqueror, The Discoverer Is Disguised By His Creations, Often Beyond Recognition; The "work," Whether Of The Artist Or The Philosopher, Invents The Man Who Has Created It, Who Is Supposed To Have Create It; "great Men," As They Are Venerated, Are Subsequent Pieces Of Wretched Minor Fiction

Whom Do I Hate Most Among The Rabble Of Today? The Socialist Rabble, The Chandala Apostles, Who Undermine The Instinct, The Pleasure, The Worker's Sense Of Satisfaction With His Small Existence-who Make Him Envious, Who Teach Him Revenge. The Source Of Wrong Is Never Unequal Rights But The Claim Of "equal" Rights.

Life, And You, And I, And All Of Us Together Became For A While Interesing To Ourselves Once More.

Everything That Is Profound Loves The Mask: The Profoundest Things Have A Hatred Even Of Figure And Likeness.

A Great Value Of Antiquity Lies In The Fact That Its Writings Are The Only Ones That Modern Men Still Read With Exactness.

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