“It struck him as curious that you could create dead men but not living ones.” 1984
The vanity of others is only counter to our taste when it is counter to our vanity. Beyond Good and Evil
To learn to see -- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts. Twilight of the Idols
Often the best in us springs from the worst in us. Reflections on Literature and Morality
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