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Nietzsche: attempt at a mythology

by Ernst Bertram

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All the Voices Cry

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Selected Writings

by Samuel Johnson

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Peter said: " This is truly beautiful prose. There was a tv programme years ago - I think it was a British cop show. They talked about "an LTT folder", which you could consult when you were unsure of the "line to take". The essays in this book are like an LTT fold ...more "

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“Terrible mania, when something happens, to enquire what.”
― Samuel Beckett

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“Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

tags: drugs, love, nowhere, religion, whiskey

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“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

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“A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: nietzsche, philosophy, politics

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“Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are happy enough to possess it and thankful, if we are not, that others possess it for our pleasure.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

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