We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
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Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
“There is such a thing as a hatred of lies and dissimulation, which is the outcome of a delicate sense of humour; there is also the selfsame hatred but as the result of cowardice, in so far as falsehood is forbidden by Divine law. Too cowardly to lie....”
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Source: The Twilight of the Idols — Project Gutenberg
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