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How I understand the philosopher - as a terrible explosive, endangering everthing... my concept of the philosopher is worlds removed from any concept that would include even a Kant, not to speak of academic "ruminants" and other professors of philosophy...

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

One must pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while still alive.

I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous - a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.

All things considered, I could never have survived my youth without Wagnerian music. For I seemed condemned to the society of Germans. If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take to hashish. Well, I had to take to Wagner...

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

To become what one is, one must not have the faintest idea what one is.