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“I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things:—then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love from henceforth!”
― NIETZSCHE FREDERICH

“They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“I am the dragon, and you call me insane.”
― Thomas Harris, Red Dragon

“...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“We ought to face our destiny with courage.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.”
― Nietzsche, Friedrich, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“When you feel strain, keep your mouth shut if you can.”
― Thomas Harris, Red Dragon

“The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.”
― 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

“I am one thing, my writings are another.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Curious how things can work on you even when you recognize them.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Silence can mock.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.”
― Thomas Harris, Red Dragon

“To write a novel, you begin with what you can see and then you add what came before and what came after.

...You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it.”
― Thomas Harris, Red Dragon

“Shiloh isn’t haunted – men are haunted.
Shiloh doesn’t care.”
― Thomas Harris, Red Dragon

“What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything more divine'? ”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell.”
― Frederick Nietzsche

“You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“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

“And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally. ”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra - A Book For All And None

“Because it's his bad luck to be the best.”
― Thomas Harris, Red Dragon

“As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.”
― Nietzsche, Friedrich

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“Pachelbel’s Canon filled the sun-drowned room where they learned each other and even then the fear flickered across him like an osprey’s shadow: This is too good to live for long.”
― Thomas Harris, Red Dragon