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The Trial
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Committing suicide would be so irrational that even had he wished to, the irrationality of the act would have prevented him.
“Reproduction is the beginning of death.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“And by this very difference tragedy stands apart in relation to comedy, for the latter intends to imitate those who are worse, and the former better, than people are now.”
― Poetics
― Poetics
“—I'm a believer in universal brotherhood, said Temple, glancing about him out of his dark oval eyes. Marx is only a bloody cod.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“The point is in life, in life alone—in discovering it, constantly and eternally, and not at all in the discovery itself!”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion: that is the doctrine of Hamlet, not that cheap wisdom of Jack the Dreamer who reflects too much and, as it were, from an excess of possibilities does not get around to action. Not reflection, no—true knowledge, an insight into the horrible truth, outweighs any motive for action, both in Hamlet and in the Dionysian man.”
― Basic Writings of Nietzsche
― Basic Writings of Nietzsche
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