"Freedom is the will to be responsible..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves. It is to preserve the distance which separates us from other men. To grow more indifferent to hardship, to severity, to privation, and even to life itself.
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“Even the most honest writer lets slip a word too many when he wants to round off a period.”
“One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well why he is honest-for the same reasons another person prefers illusion and dissimulation.”
“What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.”
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