“My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it”
― On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo
― On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo
“I have learnt how to live…how to be in the world and of the world, and not just to stand aside and watch.”
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“I'm getting as bored with dying as with everything else, he thought.
'It's a bore,' he said out loud.
'What is, my dear?'
'Anything you do too bloody long.”
― The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
'It's a bore,' he said out loud.
'What is, my dear?'
'Anything you do too bloody long.”
― The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
“If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
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