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Loving reaches up to heaven and resisting reaches just as high. They are entwined and will not let go of each other, since the excessive tension seems to indicate the ultimate and highest possibility of feeling. - LS, p. 157

It is all yes and no. The opposites embrace each other, see eye to eye, and intermingle. They recognize their oneness in agonizing pleasure. - LS, p. 156

How holy, how sinful, how everything hot and cold flows into one another! Madness and reason want to be married, the lamb and the wolf graze peacefully side by side. - LS, p. 156

I look into the vast land and hear nothing but wailing and see nothing but men consuming each other. - LS, p. 148

There are those who love men, and those who love the souls of men, and those who love their own soul. - LS, p. 147

Stupidity is one of man's strange hobbyhorses. There is something divine about it, and yet something of the megalomania of the world. Which is why stupidity is really large. - LS, p. 146, n. 277

Our hands have been tied, and each must sit quietly in his place. - LS, p. 146

While the sea is a death, it is also a place of rising. - LS, p. 146

That which we can no longer prevent or hide is our fruit. - LS, p. 145

I must unite the two conflicting powers of my soul and keep them together in a true marriage until the end of my life. - LS, p. 145

If one has done one's best to steer the chariot, and one then notices that a greater other is actually steering it, then magical operation takes place. - LS, p. 144

One can only remain silent about this, which seems to be the best apprenticeship. - LS, p. 144

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One can teach the way that leads to chaos, but one cannot teach magic. - LS, p. 144

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