“Swallow your poison, for you need it badly.”
― Beyond Good and Evil
― Beyond Good and Evil
“Blessed are the forgetful; for they get over their stupidities, too.”
― Beyond Good and Evil
― Beyond Good and Evil
“In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.”
― Beyond Good and Evil
― Beyond Good and Evil
“When a woman is frozen of feeling, when she can no longer feel herself, when her blood, her passion, no longer reach the extremities of her psyche, when she is desperate; then a fantasy life is far more pleasurable than anything else she can set her sights upon. Her little match lights, because they have no wood to burn, instead burn up the psyche as though it were a big dry log. The psyche begins to play tricks on itself; it lives now in the fantasy fire of all yearning fulfilled. This kind of fantasizing is like a lie: If you tell it often enough, you begin to believe it.”
― Women Who Run With the Wolves
― Women Who Run With the Wolves
“The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.”
― Beyond Good and Evil
― Beyond Good and Evil
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