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“It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.”
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“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
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“The singers make much of kings who valiantly die in battle, but your life is worth more than a sword. To me at least, who gave it to you.”
― A Storm of Swords
― A Storm of Swords
“I stumbled upon Friedrich Nietzsche when I was 17, following the usual trail of existential candies—Camus, Sartre, Beckett—that unsuspecting teenagers find in the woods. The effect was more like a drug than a philosophy. I was whirled upward—or was it downward?—into a one-man universe, a secret cult demanding that you put a gun to the head of your dearest habits and beliefs. That intoxicating whiff of half-conscious madness; that casually hair-raising evisceration of everything moral, responsible and parentally approved—these waves overwhelmed my adolescent dinghy. And even more than by his ideas—many of which I didn't understand at all, but some of which I perhaps grasped better then than I do now—I was seduced by his prose. At the end of his sentences you could hear an electric crack, like the whip of a steel blade being tested in the air. He might have been the Devil, but he had better lines than God.”
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