When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too. The Alchemist
War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. The Two Towers
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them. Autumn Leaves
The aphorism, the apophthegm, in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book-- what everyone else does not say in a book. Twilight of the Idols
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