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“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
― A Farewell to Arms
― A Farewell to Arms
“I hate you most because you attract, but are not strong enough to pull me to you.”
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“What is the most precious thing in the world? I see now that it is the knowledge that you have no part in injustice. Injustice is stronger than you, it always was and always will be, but let it not be done through you.”
― The First Circle
― The First Circle
“It is disgraceful for a philosopher to say: the good and the beautiful are one; if he adds 'also the true', one ought to beat him. Truth is ugly. We possess art lest we perish of the truth.”
― The Will to Power
― The Will to Power
“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.”
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
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