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“I Think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost .
The body sluggish, aged, cold, the ember left from earlier fires
shall duly flame again.”
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The body sluggish, aged, cold, the ember left from earlier fires
shall duly flame again.”
―
“I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.”
― Song of Myself
― Song of Myself
“Because wanton or venal lips had murmured the same words to him, he only half believed in the sincerity of those he was hearing now; to a large extent they should be disregarded, he believed, because such exaggerated language must surely mask commonplace feelings: as if the soul in its fullness did not sometimes overflow into the most barren metaphors, since no one can ever tell the precise measures of his own needs, of his own ideas, of his own pain, and human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when what we long to do is make music that will move the stars to pity.”
― Madame Bovary
― Madame Bovary
“Socialism is nihilistic, in the henceforth precise sense that Nietzsche confers on the word. A nihilist is not one who believes in nothing, but one who does not believe in what exists.”
― The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
― The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
“They did not know; nor did they know that the negation of everything is in itself a form of servitude and
that real freedom is an inner submission to a value which defies history and its successes.”
― The Rebel
that real freedom is an inner submission to a value which defies history and its successes.”
― The Rebel
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