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Saladin by Andrew S. Ehrenkreutz (1972-05-03)

by Andrew S. Ehrenkreutz

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Steppenwolf

by Hermann Hesse

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"Our whole civilisation was a cemetery where Jesus Christ and Socrates, Mozart and Haydn, Dante and Goethe were but indecipherable names on mouldering stone" — May 05, 2026 03:08AM

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Saints and strangers: Being the lives of the Pilgrim Fathers and their families, with their friends and foes ; and an account of the posthumous ... and the strange pilgrimages of Plymouth Rock

by George F. Willison

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Order in Chaos: The Memoirs of General of Panzer Troops Hermann Balck (Foreign Military Studies) by Hermann Balck

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Balck and General George S. Patton had much in common. Both were dynamic commanders who believed that offensive action was always preferable to defense. “It is quite remarkable,” Balck once noted, “that most people believe that attack costs ...more

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“Books for the masses are always bad-smelling books: the odour of little people cling to them.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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“Every select man seeks instinctively to find his castle, his secret place, where he is absolved of the mass; the many, the majority - where he may forget the human rule, being himself the exception.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

tags: exceptional-people, solitude, superiority

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