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“Humanity looked in awe upon the beauty and the everlasting duration of creation. The exquisite sky flooded with sunlight. The majesty of the dark night lit by celestial torches as the holy planetary powers trace their paths in the heavens in fixed and steady metre - ordering the growth of things with their secret infusions.”
― Corpus Hermeticum
― Corpus Hermeticum
“It is only man's egoism which wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.”
― Venus in Furs
― Venus in Furs
“Do you come from Heaven or rise from the abyss, Beauty?”
― The Flowers of Evil / Les Fleurs du Mal
― The Flowers of Evil / Les Fleurs du Mal
“Mediocrities flock to any movement which will indulge their self-pity and their self-righteousness, for without a Movement the mediocrity is on the slide into terminal melancholia.”
― The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History
― The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History
“Woman! One-half of mankind is weak, typically sick, changeable, inconstant... she needs a religion of weakness that glorifies being weak, loving, and being humble as divine: or better, she makes the strong weak--she rules when she succeeds in overcoming the strong... Woman has always conspired with the types of decadence, the priests, against the 'powerful', the 'strong', the men.”
― The Will to Power
― The Will to Power
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