"The demand to be loved is the..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.
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“The greatest pleasure of life is love.”
“In fact, though their acquaintance had been so short, they had guessed, as always happens between lovers, everything of any importance about each other in two seconds at the utmost, and it now remained only to fill in such unimportant details as what they were called; where they lived; and whether they were beggars or people of substance.”
“Love comes with hunger.”
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“Said a skunk to a tube-rose, "See how swiftly I run, while you cannot walk nor even creep."Said the tube-rose to the skunk, "Oh, most noble swift runner, please run swiftly!"”
“It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp.”
“He that fancies such a sufficiency in himself that he can live without all the world is greatly mistaken; but he that imagines himself so necessary that other people cannot live without him is a great deal more mistaken.”