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As long as you are not conscious of your self you can live; but if you become conscious of your self, you fall from one grave into another. - LS, p. 35

I did not live, but was driven; I was a slave to my ideals. - LS, p. 34

The ideal is also a tool that one can put aside anytime, a torch on dark paths. But whoever runs around with a torch by day is a fool. - LS, p. 34

He who believes he is really living his ideals, or believes he can live them, suffers from delusions of grandeur. - LS, p. 34

After the cursing comes laughter, so that the soul is saved from the dead. - LS, p. 34

The most beautiful and the best, like the ugliest and the worst, end up someday in the most laughable place in the world, surrounded by fancy dress and led by fools, and go horror-struck to the pit of filth. - LS, p. 34

But I was no longer the man I had been, for a strange being grew through me. - LS, p. 34

What can be done? Even the devil is necessary, since otherwise one has nothing that commands a sense of respect with people. - LS, p. 33

A dog passes, lifts his leg over me, then trots off calmly. - LS, p. 31

Limitation enables you to fulfill your being. - LS, p. 31

I behold death, since it teaches me how to live. - LS, p. 31

To live what is right and to let what is false die, that is the art of life. - LS, n. 75

Life and death must strike a balance in your existence. - LS, p. 31

We need the coldness of death to see clearly. Life wants to live and to die, to begin and to end. - LS, p. 31

You do not know which devils are greater, your vices, or your virtues. But of one thing you are certain, that virtues and vices are brothers. - LS, p. 31

But did you know what evil is, and that it stands precisely right behind your virtues, that it is also your virtues themselves, as their inevitable substance? - LS, p. 30

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