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“LOVE: Deception of the flesh and damage to the spirit. Disease of the soul, atrophy of the brain, weakening of the heart, corruption of the senses, poetic lies from which one gets ferociously inebriated two or three times a day in order to consume this precious but stupid life more quickly. And yet I would prefer to die of love. Its the only swindler, after Judas, that can kill with a kiss.”
― Toward the Creative Nothing and Other Writings
― Toward the Creative Nothing and Other Writings
“A new beauty has been added to the splendor of the world - the beauty of speed.”
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“I wish to live my life intensely and embrace my death tragically.”
― Toward the Creative Nothing and Other Writings
― Toward the Creative Nothing and Other Writings
“It is much more agreeable to offend and later ask forgiveness than to be offended and grant forgiveness. The one who does the former demonstrates his power and then his goodness. The other, if he does not want to be thought inhuman, must forgive; because of this coercion, pleasure in the other's humiliation is slight.”
― Aphorisms on Love and Hate
― Aphorisms on Love and Hate
“Life — for me — is neither good nor bad, neither a theory nor an idea. Life is a reality, and the reality of life is war. For one who is a born warrior, life is a fountain of joy, for others it is only a fountain of humiliation and sorrow. I no longer demand carefree joy from life. It couldn’t give it to me, and I would no longer know what to do with it now that my adolescence is past...”
― I Am Also a Nihilist
― I Am Also a Nihilist
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