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• It is either through the influence of narcotic potio
  of which all primitive peoples and races speak in hymns, or through the powerful approach of spring, penetrating with joy all of nature, that those Dionysian stirrings arise, which in their intensification lead the individual to forget himself completely....
• What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneness, and say, "This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more
  and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence....
• Jacques: First, you must get to know your lane. Feel the slickness, feel the slippery finish.
  Caresses it, experience it. Quite smooth, isn't it?...
• The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.
  -- John Quincy Adams All the good from the Saviour of the world is communicated through this Book...
• And it does matter. An honest man or woman is an honest man or woman more because he or she is honest in the small
  everyday things that "don't matter" individually, but which make up a well-lived life, than because of some single great temptation that was passed....
• Nature (reality) is just as absolutist as chess, and her rules (laws) are just as immutable (more so) -- but her rules and their applications are much
  much more complex, and have to be discovered by man....
• Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's? -- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
• For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either.
  The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret....
• BIRTH, n. The first and direst of all disasters. As to the nature of it there appears to be no uniformity.
  Castor and Pollux were born from the egg. Pallas came out of a skull....