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“Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman--a rope over an abyss.

A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what is lovable in man is that he is an OVER-GOING and a DOWN-GOING.

I love those that know not how to live except as down-goers, for they are the over-goers.

I love the great despisers, because they are the great adorers, and arrows of longing for the other shore.

I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves to the earth, that the earth of the Superman may hereafter arrive.

I love him who lives in order to know, and seeks to know in order that the Superman may hereafter live. Thus seeks he his own down-going.

I love him who labors and invents, that he may build the house for the Superman, and prepare for him earth, animal, and plant: for thus seeks he his own down-going.

I love him who loves his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing.

I love him who reserves no share of spirit for himself, but wants to be wholly the spirit of his virtue: thus walks he as spirit over the bridge.

I love him who makes his virtue his inclination and destiny: thus, for the sake of his virtue, he is willing to live on, or live no more.

I love him who desires not too many virtues. One virtue is more of a virtue than two, because it is more of a knot for one's destiny to cling to.

I love him whose soul is lavish, who wants no thanks and does not give back: for he always bestows, and desires not to keep for himself.

I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favor, and who then asks: "Am I a dishonest player?"--for he is willing to succumb.

I love him who scatters golden words in advance of his deeds, and always does more than he promises: for he seeks his own down-going.

I love him who justifies the future ones, and redeems the past ones: for he is willing to succumb through the present ones.

I love him who chastens his God, because he loves his God: for he must succumb through the wrath of his God.

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

I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgets himself, and all things that are in him: thus all things become his down-going.

I love him who is of a free spirit and a free heart: thus is his head only the bowels of his heart; his heart, however, causes his down-going.

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

Lo, I am a herald of the lightning, and a heavy drop out of the cloud: the lightning, however, is the SUPERMAN.--”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“What hath night to do with sleep?”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“...and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, till she cry 'Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!”
― Thomas Parke D'Invilliers

“شما را به خدا این فکر را نکنید ناستنکا ، زیرا من بغضی وقت ها به قدری غصه دارم ، به قدری نا امیدم که .... چون من در این اوقات به این فکر می افتم که هرگز نخواهم توانست درست زندگی کنم. چون این جور وقت ها فکر می کنم که توانایی سنجش و بینش و احساس واقعیت را از دست داده ام ، چون خودم را لعنت کرده ام ، چون همیشه بعد از این شب های رویا هشیار می شوم و این هشیاری نمی دانید چه تلخ است ! وقتی آدم هشیار می شود هیاهوی انبوه مردم را در اطراف خود می شنود که در گردباد زندگی حرکت می کنند، می بیند و می شنود که مردم زنده اند و بیدارند ، می بیند که در زندگی بر آنها بسته نیست. می بیند که زندگی مردم دیگر مثل خواب و خیال بر باد نمی رود و نابود نمی شود ، زندگی شان پیوسته تازه می شود و همیشه جوان است ، و هیچ لحظه ای از آن به لحظه ی دیگر نمی ماند ، در حالی که خیال بازی های آمیخته با ترس غم انگیز و و در نهایت فلاکت یکنواخت است.

در اندوه ، کجا نقش خیال انگیزی یافت شدنی است؟”
― Feodor Dostoyevsky

“هميشه مي خواستم بدانم مرز احساس و منطق كجا تعيين ميشود.در آلمان فهميدم كه مرز احساس و منطق در فرهنگ تعيين مي شود.در درازاي تاريخ.آلماني ها كانت دارند و ما حافظ.”
― عباس معروفی, تماماً مخصوص

“You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn't want you anymore that he is right -- that his judgement and opinion of you are correct. If he throws you out, then you are garbage. You think he belongs to you because you want to belong to him. Don't. It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love. Love shouldn't be like that. Did you ever see the way the clouds love a mountain? They circle all around it; sometimes you can't even see the mountain for the clouds. But you know what? You go up top and what do you see? His head. The clouds never cover the head. His head pokes through, beacuse the clouds let him; they don't wrap him up. They let him keep his head up high, free, with nothing to hide him or bind him. You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? You don't, do you? And neither does he. You're turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why should it mean any more to him? He can't value you more than you value yourself.”
― Toni Morrison

“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
― Charles Bukowski

“You're the sort of person who, on principle, no longer expects anything of anything. There are plenty, younger than you or less young, who live in the expectation of extraordinary experiences: from books, from people, from journeys, from events, from what tomorrow has in store. But not you. You know that the best you can expect is to avoid the worst.”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler