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"Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing."
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"The ego survives only in conflict. Peace is the death of the ego."

"Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it."
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"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it."
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"I get pretty terrified, to be honest, when I'm on tour. You really have to muster a lot of ego to go our there, which I find rather draining."

"The nature of the ego is to misuse whatever authority one has."

"Not everything is about you.In fact, most things aren't.What a relief, right?"

"No act is so private it does not seek applause."
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"Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed."


"He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself."


"In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so."


"Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion."


"The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings."


"A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it."


"The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own."
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