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Man is a self-conscious Nothing.

— Julius Bahnsen

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The longer I live, the more I feel that the simplest formula for the constancy of my fate is: on a lost watch.

What in all the world has courage to do with hope?

[The self is divided within itself], willing what it does not will and not willing what it wills.

And if my friends refused to listen to me, then the walls had to hear me or the stones in the fields and the trees of the forests.

[On Spinoza's necessity of the world's process:] The inability to resign oneself to the necessary order, is also a necessity and the pain is on that account no less!"

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