Possessions are generally diminished by possession. The Gay Science
Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells. Sand and Foam
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate. Either/Or
Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine. Book II
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