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Arthur Schopenhauer
“No one reveals himself as he is; we all wear a mask and play a role.

- On Psychology
Arthur Schopenhauer, The Horrors and Absurdities of Religion

Friedrich Nietzsche
“My formula for human greatness is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not in the future, not in the past, not for all eternity. Not only to endure what is necessary, still less to conceal it — all idealism is falseness in the face of necessity — , but to love it...”
Friedrich Nietzsche

Ovid
“His eyes that swam in death's dark night looked round
For Athis, and he lay down by his side,
Solaced among the shades to share his death.”
Ovid, Metamorphoses

Friedrich Nietzsche
“Masks. - There are women who, however you may search them, prove to have no content but are purely masks. The man who associates with such almost spectral, necessarily unsatisfied beings is to be commiserated with, yet it is precisely they who are able to arouse the desire of the man most strongly: he seeks for her soul - and goes on seeking.”
Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

Malcolm Gladwell
“What the Israelites saw, from high on the ridge, was an intimidating giant. In reality, the very thing that gave the giant his size was also the source of his greatest weakness. There is an important lesson in that for battles with all kinds of giants. The powerful and the strong are not always what they seem.”
Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

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