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Life is hard to bear: but do not affect to be so delicate! We are all of us fine sumpter asses and assesses.

Life is hard to bear: but do not affect to be so delicate! We are all of us fine sumpter asses and assesses.

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Life Is Hard, Bears, Ass
Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil”, p.43, e-artnow

Here the spirit becomes a lion who would conquer his freedom and be master… Who is the great dragon whom the spirit will no longer call lord and go? ‘Thou shalt’ is the name of the great dragon. But the spirit of the lion says, ‘I will.

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Dragons, Names, Lions

The Gay Science, section 108

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Philosophical, Gay, Sections

When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.

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Gratitude, Grateful, Shame
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.201, Vintage

There did he sit shrivelled in his chimney corner, fretting on account of his weak legs, world weary, will weary, and one day he suffocated through his excessive pity.

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God, One Day, World
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, p.251, Jester House Publishing via PublishDrive

Every talent must unfold itself in fighting.

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Fighting, Martial Arts, Talent
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.31, Penguin

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

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Technology, Years, Machines
1880 TheWanderer and His Shadow, aphorism 278.

When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.

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Gratitude, Modesty, Fame

In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky scheming off the imagination-and to flee, not like Plato into the land of eternal ideas, into the workshop off the world-creator, feasting one's eyes on the unblemished unbreakable archetypes, but into the rigor mortis off the coldest emptiest concept off all, the concept of being.

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Plato, Eye, Reality

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

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Funny, Dad, Father

Iron necessity is a thing which in the course of history men come to see as neither iron nor necessary.

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Men, Iron, Courses
"Human, All Too Human".

I would only believe in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound, and solemn: it was the spirit of gravity—through him all things fall. Not by wrath does one kill but by laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!

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Laughter, Believe, Fall
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.99, Penguin

And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.

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Long, Way, Ashamed

We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are. We adults, on the other hand, have outgrown them and have to lower ourselves to stoop down to them. It seems to me that the grass hates us when we confess our love for it. Whoever would partake of all good things must understand how to be small at times.

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Children, Hate, Flower

The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.

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Running, Vanity, Taste

I love him who scattereth golden words in advance of his deeds, and always doeth more than he promiseth: for he seeketh his own down-going.

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I Love Him, Deeds, Golden
Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Hellenism & Pessimism – 3 Unbeatable Philosophy Books in One Volume: The Birth of Tragedy”, p.152, e-artnow

I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, and may succumb through a small matter: thus goeth he willingly over the bridge.

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I Love Him, Bridges, Soul
Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil”, p.22, e-artnow

I love all who are like heavy drops falling one by one out of the dark cloud that lowereth over man: they herald the coming of the lightning, and succumb as heralds.

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Fall, Dark, Men
Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Hellenism & Pessimism – 3 Unbeatable Philosophy Books in One Volume: The Birth of Tragedy”, p.153, e-artnow

He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart.

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Heart, Blood, Want
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.46, e-artnow

So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared!

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War, What Matters, Long
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.54, e-artnow

After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: "I am ugly"?.

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Beautiful, Would Be, Ugly
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo”, p.88, Vintage

Though the favourites of the Gods die young, they also live eternally in the company of Gods

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Young, Die Young, Company

I teach you the Overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? ... The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time has come to plant the seed to his highest hope.

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Hope, Courage, Time

Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden them.

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Honesty, Men, Laziness

On the rare occasions when our dreams succeed and achieve perfection - most dreams are bungled - the are symbolic chains of scene and images in place of a narrative poetic language; they circumscribe our experiences or expectations or situations with such poetic boldness and decisiveness that in the morning we are always amazed when we remember our dreams.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Dream, Morning, Expectations

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