Solitude is a virtue for us, since it is a sublime inclination and impulse to cleanliness which shows that contact between people, “society”, inevitably makes things unclean. Somewhere, sometime, every community makes people–“base.

Friedrich Nietzsche
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More Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche
  1. It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

  2. There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

  3. The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

  4. One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

  5. Amor Fati — “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.

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