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The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous toy.

— Friedrich Nietzsche Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883)

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He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.

Beyond Good and Evil (1886)

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love.

Twilight of the Idols (1889)

Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.

Beyond Good and Evil (1886)

They are not clean enough for me, either: they all disturb their waters so that they may seem deep.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883)

Everything in woman is a riddle, and everything in woman hath one solution—it is called pregnancy.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883)

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