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"I’ve only just started this book but I am wondering if it has filtered into everything so much after 40 years that it is going to be terribly boring." — Sep 20, 2026 11:35AM
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"The plot starts in chapter 14?! This was a serial, so people waited THREE MONTHS for something to happen?! I could never read this book but the other day it was the first thing that came up as a free Amazon Classic when I needed to drive somewhere and I was taking too many notes on 5 Crashes to drive with it. And then that terrible book today & a long drive." — Sep 12, 2026 05:26PM
"The plot starts in chapter 14?! This was a serial, so people waited THREE MONTHS for something to happen?! I could never read this book but the other day it was the first thing that came up as a free Amazon Classic when I needed to drive somewhere and I was taking too many notes on 5 Crashes to drive with it. And then that terrible book today & a long drive." — Sep 12, 2026 05:26PM
“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”
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“I love things that are absurd, useless, impossible, frantic, excessive, and intense, because they provoke me, because I feel them like thorns in my flesh.”
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“I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.”
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“The relevant point here [by Nietzsche in Genealogy of Morality] is merely that when happiness is not pictured as the process of a struggle against suffering or as a creative activity, it will nevertheless not be defined as a pure state of pleasure from which pain is completely absent: when the overcoming of suffering is not conceived in terms of one’s own exertions, it is apt to take the form of one’s own triumphant elevation over the suffering of others.”
― Nietzsche: Philosopher Psychologist Antichrist
― Nietzsche: Philosopher Psychologist Antichrist
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