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“Being a parent is to live out such a disjunction between duty and personal freedom—to love a child with one’s entire being, but to preserve something of one’s identity that parenting cannot touch. Nietzsche explains how this divided self is not only possible but inevitable.”
― Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are
― Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are
“It is a most repulsive quality, indeed,’ said he. ‘Oftentimes very convenient, no doubt, but never pleasing. There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.’
‘Not till the reserve ceases towards oneself; and then the attraction may be the greater.”
― Emma
‘Not till the reserve ceases towards oneself; and then the attraction may be the greater.”
― Emma
“The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them!”
― Hiking with Nietzsche: Becoming Who You Are
― Hiking with Nietzsche: Becoming Who You Are
“Being a responsible adult is, among other things, often to resign oneself to a life that falls radically short of the expectations and potentialities that one had or, indeed, still has. It is to become what one has always hoped to avoid.”
― Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are
― Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are
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