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“In short, to enter the lists of literature is wilfully to expose yourself to the arrows of neglect, ridicule, envy, and disappointment. Whether you write well or ill, be assured that you will not escape from blame...”
― The Monk
― The Monk
“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
― Beyond Good and Evil
― Beyond Good and Evil
“the essence of man is really his paradoxical nature, the fact that he is half animal and half symbolic.”
― The Denial of Death
― The Denial of Death
“Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.”
― Island
― Island
“I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.”
― Apology
― Apology
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