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“The secret to your existence is right in front of you. It manifests itself as all those things you know you should do, but are avoiding.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief

“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“There are terrible people who, instead of solving a problem, bungle it and make it more difficult for all who come after. Whoever can't hit the nail on the head should, please, not hit at all.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.”
― Rollo May

“The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.”
― Saul Steinberg

“Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.”
― Voltaire, Candide

“Boredom, that traitorous devil that posseses us to do things sometimes useless, and often stupid.”
― Apol Lejano-Massebieau