"In the true man there is a child concealed - who wants to play."

Innocence, Man, Play, Truth

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"It is so heartbreaking what we do to children in this world, how they are destroyed."

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"Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be."

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"Who art thou then, O my soul!" (and here [Zarathustra] became frightened, for a sunbeam shot down from heaven upon his face.""O heaven above me," said he sighing, and sat upright, "thou gazest at me? Thou hearkenest unto my strange soul?When wilt thou drink this drop of dew that fell down upon all earthly things-when wilt thou drink this strange soul--When, thou well of eternity! thou joyous, awful, noontide abyss! when wilt thou drink my soul back into thee?"

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"I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity."

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"It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men."

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"Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect."

Cause

"If we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how."

Philosophy

"Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little effort is expended on reading them: and the good fortune that attends the obscure is that the reader toils at them and ascribes to them the pleasure he has in fact gained from his own zeal."

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"How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy."

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"You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth."

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"Every past is worth condemning."

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"The voice of beauty speaks softly, it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls."

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