Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
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Nothing seems to me to be rarer today then genuine hypocrisy. I greatly suspect that this plant finds the mild atmosphere of our culture unendurable. Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief one already has.Friedrich Nietzsche
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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Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.
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The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
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It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
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Every word is a preconceived judgment.
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