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“The harshest daylight, rationality at any cost, life bright, cold, circumspect, conscious, without instinct, in opposition to the instincts, has itself been no more than a form of sickness, another form of sickness – and by no means a way back to ‘virtue’, to ‘health’, to happiness…. To have to combat one’s instincts – that is the formula for décadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness and instinct are one. –”
― Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ
― Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ
“Say stupid shit. Barf out the fucking-around-o-maniacal schizo flow. Barter whatever for whoever wants to read it.”
― The Anti-Oedipus Papers (Semiotext
― The Anti-Oedipus Papers (Semiotext
“Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.”
― The Fall
― The Fall
“The Church combats the passions with excision in every sense of the word: its practice, its ‘cure’ is castration. It never asks: ‘How can one spiritualize, beautify, deify a desire?’ – it has at all times laid the emphasis of its discipline on extirpation (of sensuality, of pride, of lust for power, of avarice, of revengefulness). – But to attack the passions at their roots means to attack life at its roots: the practice of the Church is hostile to life…”
― Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ
― Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ
“One has deprived becoming of its innocence if being in this or that state is traced back to will, to intentions, to accountable acts: the doctrine of will has been invented essentially for the purpose of punishment, that is of finding guilty.”
― Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ
― Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ
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