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  1. Irvin D. Yalom _ When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel

    How? It's obvious. You told me yourself, Lou is like your Bertha-she's an automaton, playing her role, the same role, with me, with you, with one man after the other. The particular man is incidental. She seduced both of us in the same way, with the same female deviousness, the same guile, the same gestures, the same promises!" "And yet this automaton controls you. She dominates your mind: you worry about her opinion, you pine for her touch." "No. No pining. No longer. What I feel now is rage." "At Lou
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  2. Irvin D. Yalom _ When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel

    Do not create children until one is ready to be a creator and to spawn creators." It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future-as though sperm contains your consciousness!
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  3. Irvin D. Yalom _ When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel

    Lucretius' maxim: 'Where I am, death is not; where death is, I am not.
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  4. Irvin D. Yalom _ When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel

    He is civilized, polite, a man of manners. He has tamed his wild nature, turned his wolf into a spaniel. And he calls this moderation. Its real name is mediocrity!
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  5. Irvin D. Yalom _ When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel

    But you, like me, have good eyes. You looked too far into life. You saw that it was futile to reach wrong goals and futile to set new wrong goals. Multiplications of zero are always zero!" Breuer
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    Should we not create-should we not become-before we reproduce? Our responsibility to life is to create the higher, not to reproduce the lower."
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  7. Irvin D. Yalom _ When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel

    Just as the bones, flesh, intestines and blood vessels are enclosed in a skin that makes the sight of man endurable, so the agitations and passions of the soul are enveloped in vanity; it is the skin of the soul.
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  8. Irvin D. Yalom _ When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel

    Like you, I have often wondered why fears reign at night. After twenty years of such wondering, I now believe that fears are not born of darkness; rather, fears are like the stars-always there, but obscured by the glare of daylight. "And
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  9. Irvin D. Yalom _ When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel

    there was a basic division of the ways of men: those who wish for peace of soul and happiness must believe and embrace faith, while those who wish to pursue the truth must forsake peace of mind and devote their life to inquiry.
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  10. Irvin D. Yalom _ When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel

    eternal recurrence means that every time you choose an action you must be willing to choose it for all eternity."
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  11. Irvin D. Yalom _ When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel

    For one can never really be helped by another; one must find the strength to help oneself.
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  12. Irvin D. Yalom _ When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel

    You wonder about a conversation with nothing concealed-its real name is hell, I believe. To disclose oneself to another is the prelude to betrayal, and betrayal makes one sick, does it not?
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