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He took my life with him. All my force was now in him. - LS, p. 66

Are we not sons of the Gods? Why should Gods not be our children? - LS, p. 62

That is the end of the story of the Gods. Nothing remains of the Gods other than an egg. And I possess this egg. - LS, p. 62

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That is the demise of the Gods: man puts them in his pocket. - LS, p. 62

You notice: you are not true, it is not true above, it is not true below, left and right are deceptions. Wherever you grasp is air, air, air. - LS, p. 62

You storm Heaven: stage scenery totters and the prompter in the box falls into a swoon. - LS, p. 62

I would like to be able to blaspheme against the God: That way I would at least have a God whom I could insult, but it is not worth blaspheming against an egg that one carries in one's pocket. That is a God against whom one cannot even blaspheme. - LS, p. 62

These are the powers that make you afraid and conquer you; these have been your Gods and your rulers since time immemorial: yet you can put them in your pocket. What is blasphemy compared to this? - LS, p. 62

I exchanged my furthest goal for the nearest, and so I am ready. - LS, p. 61

I saw warriors form into line of battle and I destroyed my suit of armor with a hammer. - LS, p. 61

I shattered my firm castle and played like a child in the sand. - LS, p. 61

I have overthrown all the Gods, broken the laws, eaten the impure.

I have thrown down my sword and dressed in women's clothing.

- LS, p. 61

Whence do you delight me, Oh God?
He is the eternal emptiness and the eternal fullness.
Nothing resembles him and he resembles everything.
Eternal darkness and eternal brightness.
Eternal below and eternal above.
Double nature in one.
Simple in the manifold.
Meaning in absurdity.
Freedom in bondage.
Subjugated when victorious.
Old in youth.
Yes in no.
- LS, p. 52

Conceal the God that you have taken with you. - LS, p. 49

Consider that your fellow men are animals without knowing it. - LS, p. 49

Do not wait until rawly bungling hands of men hack your God to pieces, but embrace him again, lovingly, until he has taken on the form of his first beginning. Let no human eye see the much loved, terribly splendid one in the state of his illness and lack of power. - LS, p. 49

You will not conquer anything for any length of time. - LS, p. 49

The God outside us increases the weight of everything heavy, while the God within us lightens everything heavy. - LS, p. 48

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