Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice. Beyond Good and Evil
To stand in the midst of ... this whole marvelous uncertainty and rich ambiguity in existence without questioning, without trembling with the craving and the rapture of such questioning ... that is what I feel to be contemptible, and this is the feeling for which I look first in everybody. Some folly keeps persuading me that every human has this feeling just because he is human. The Gay Science
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. The Picture of Dorian Gray
History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth. Don Quixote
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