“Our bodies may be extensions of our words. But they can neither replace nor refute them.” Samarkand
The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing. Book II
It might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who would know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of spirit should be measured according to how much of the "truth" one could still barely endure--or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified. Beyond Good and Evil
We are all made for mutual assistance, as the feet, the hands, and the eyelids, as the rows of the upper and under teeth, from whence it follows that clashing and opposition is perfectly unnatural. Book II
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