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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
    tags: darkness
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
    tags: inspirational
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame;
    how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.”
    ― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
    tags: on-self-overcoming
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
    tags: nietzsche, pollution, purity
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Man is something that shall be overcome. Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.”
    ― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
    tags: change, destiny, fate, singularity, the-singularity
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
    tags: existentialism, wisdom, writing
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The real man wants two different things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I hate you most because you attract, but are not strong enough to pull me to you.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
    tags: friedrich-nietzsche
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you have still chaos in you.”
    ― Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
    tags: chaos, philosophy
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “there they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I and me are always too deeply in conversation: how could I endure it,
    if there were not a friend?
    The friend of the hermit is always the third one: the third one is the float which prevents the conversation of the two from sinking into the depth.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
    tags: loneliness, solitude
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Are you a slave? Then you cannot be a friend. Are you a tyrant? Then you cannot have friends.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: reality
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: life-and-living
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    Megan Chance
    “You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.”
    ― Megan Chance, The Spiritualist
    tags: control, emotion, feel, feelings, madness, nightmares, running-away
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    Susanna Clarke
    “Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.”
    ― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
    tags: insanity, madness, time
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    Emilie Autumn
    “Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.”
    ― Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
    tags: crazy, insane, mad, madness, shakespeare, william-shakespeare
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    A.G. Howard
    “You crave chaos. You're happiest when the world is in an uproar. You thrive on madness. Even when your magic is at its best when it's the catalyst to confusion. You still can't admit this?”
    ― A.G. Howard, Splintered
    tags: ag-howard, alice-in-wonderland, crave-chaos, madness, morpheus, splintered
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    Grant Morrison
    “Enough madness? Enough? And how do you measure madness? - The Joker”
    ― Grant Morrison, Batman: Arkham Asylum
    tags: batman, joker, madness
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    Erich Segal
    “Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness”
    ― Erich Segal
    tags: genius, madness
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    Shakieb Orgunwall
    “She was chaos and beauty intertwined. A tornado of roses from divine.”
    ― Shakieb Orgunwall
    tags: friendship, love, love-quotes, madness, quotes-about-love, quotes-about-lovers, rose, she
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    Edogawa Rampo
    “This is what I am talking about: the bewitching power of moonlight. Moonlight incites dark passions like a cold flame, making hearts burning with the intensity of phosphorus.”
    ― Rampo Edogawa
    tags: dark-passions, madness, moon, moonlight
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    Grant Morrison
    “It's salt. Why don't you sprinkle some on me, honey? Aren't I just good enough to eat?”
    ― Grant Morrison, Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
    tags: comics, food, joker, madness
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    David Gilmour
    “There is no dark side of the moon really. As a matter of fact it's all dark.”
    ― Pink Floyd, Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon
    tags: life, madness, music, philosophy, pink-floyd, rock
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    William Blake
    “excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand.”
    ― William Blake, William Blake
    tags: drunk, enthusiasm, inspiration, intellectual, madness
    44 likes



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