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Love is the state in which man sees things most widely different from what they are. The force of illusion reaches its zenith here, as likewise the sweetening and transfiguring power. When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything.

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The Antichrist

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Der Antichrist [The Antichrist]. 1895, no. 23.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. "The Anti-Christ." The Twilight of the Idols and Anti-Christ, translated by R. J. Hollingdale. Penguin Classics, 1990, no. 23.

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The broad effects which can obtained by punishment in man and beast are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but dos not make him "better."

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Genealogy of Morals

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Zur Genealogie der Moral: Eine Streitschrift [On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic]. Leipzig: Verlag von C. G. Neumann, 1887, essay 2.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. On the Genealogy of Morals, translated by Michael A. Scarpitti. Penguin Classics, 2014, essay 2.

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Now every tradition grows continually more venerable, the farther off lies its origin, the more this is lost sight of; the veneration paid it accumulates from generation to generation, the tradition at last becomes holy and excites awe.

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Human, All Too Human

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Menschliches, Allzumenschliches: Ein Buch für freie Geister [Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits]. Chemnitz: Ernst Schmeizner, 1878, second division, no. 96.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits, translated by Marion Faber and Stephen Lehmann. University of Nebraska Press, 1984, second division, no. 96.

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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

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Human, All Too Human

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Menschliches, Allzumenschliches: Ein Buch für freie Geister [Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits]. Chemnitz: Ernst Schmeizner, 1878, ninth divison, aphorism 483.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits, translated by Marion Faber and Stephen Lehmann. University of Nebraska Press, 1984, ninth divison, aphorism 483.

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The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.

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Beyond Good and Evil

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft [Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future]. Leipzig: C. G. Naumann, 1886, ch. 4, no. 157.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Beyond Good and Evil, translated by R. J. Hollingdale. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 4, no. 157.

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Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

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The Gay Science

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Die frohliche Wissenschaft [The Gay Science]. Chemnitz: Ernst Schmeitzner, 1882, bk. 3, no. 116.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Joyous Science, translated by R. Kevin Hill. Penguin Classics, 2019, bk. 3, no. 116.

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Without music, life would be a mistake.

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Twilight of the Idols

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Nietzsche, Frederick. Götzen-Dämmerung, oder, Wie man mit dem Hammer philosophiert [Twilight of the Idols or How to Philosophize with a Hammer]. Leipzig: Verlag von C. G. Naumann, 1889.

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Nietzsche, Frederick. Twilight of the Idols and the Anti-Christ: or How to Philosophize with a Hammer, translated by Walter Kaufman and R. J. Hollingdale. Penguin Classics, 1990.

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We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth.

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The Will to Power

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Der Wille zur Macht [The Will to Power]. Leipzig: C.G. Naumann, 1906.

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Nietzsche, Frederick. The Will to Power, translated by Walter Kaufmann and R. J. Hollingdale, edited by Walter Kaufmann. Vintage, 1968.

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What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.

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Ecce Homo

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Ecce homo: Wie man wird, was man ist [Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is]. Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1908.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is, translated by Duncan Large. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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