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“…become master over yourself, master of your own good qualities… acquire power over your aye and no and learn to hold and withhold them in accordance with your higher aims…”
Nietzsche on what it really means to be a free spirit:
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“No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life. There may be countless trails and bridges and demigods who would gladly carry you across; but only at the price of pawning and forgoing yourself. There is one path in the world that none can walk but you. Where does it lead? Don’t ask, walk!”
Nietzsche on how to find yourself — one of the wisest things ever written:
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Nietzsche’s 10 rules for writers, laid out in a letter to the woman with whom he was in love: