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"Morality without a sense of paradox is mean."
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"The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive."
"And there, right in the middle of it, I find 'Forgive us our sins as we forgive those that sin against us.' There is no slightest suggestion that we are offered forgiveness on any other terms. It is made perfectly clear that if we do not forgive we shall not be forgiven."
"When a man is getting better, he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him."
"Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are."
"A person is what he says and does, that's how you learn whether his reputation was earned or manufactured."
"Satan is never your well-wisher. Get the pleasure of making him annoyed on you by doing good deeds."
"How can I blame others, when I cannot stop myself committing crimes?"
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"Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences."
"Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry."
"The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly."
"A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named."
"Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility."
"If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry."
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