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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
The lie is a condition of life.
Art is the proper task of life.
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying.
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.