Walter Manrique

“how we have from the very beginning understood how to retain our ignorance so as to enjoy an almost inconceivable freedom, frivolity, impetuosity, bravery, cheerfulness of life, so as to enjoy life!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“Physiologists should think again before postulating the drive to self-preservation as the cardinal drive in an organic being. A living thing desires above all to vent its strength – life as such is will to power – : self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent consequences of it.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“You can do what you like to me, I’ve only got one life,” answered the old man firmly.”
― Ivan Vazov, Under the Yoke

“Mistake ? of course we were mistaken. But the revolution and the victims were bound to be. I could even have wished they were more numerous and more terrible. We can’t destroy Turkey by force of arms, but we can gain the sympathies of the world, at least, by our frightful sufferings, by our martyrdom, by the rivers of blood that are now flowing in Bulgaria.”
― Ivan Vazov, Under the Yoke