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“However you may be, be your own source of experience. Throw off your discontent about your nature. Forgive yourself, your own self. You have it in your power to merge everything you have lived through; false starts, errors, delusions, passions, your loves and your hopes into your goal with nothing left over.” Friedrich Nietzsche

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“You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame;
How could you become new if you haven’t first become ashes?” Friedrich Nietzsche

“You say, it’s dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light?” Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.” Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves.” Friedrich Nietzsche

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“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.” Friedrich Nietzsche

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“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.” Friedrich Nietzsche

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“True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.” Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.” Nietzsche

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“We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds, our planet is the mental institution of the universe.” Friedrich Nietzsche

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“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.” Friedrich Nietzsche

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“You say, it’s dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light.”  Friedrich Nietzsche

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“At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.” Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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“You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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