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The trouble with being born

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“A true fox calls sour not only those grapes he is unable to reach but also those he has reached and deprived others of.”

—Human, All Too Human, “The Wanderer and His Shadow,” §244.
“Even if language will not get over its awkwardness and continue to talk of opposites where there are only degrees of gradation, we will understand it and laugh at the way in which science seeks most to keep us in this simplified, thoroughly artificial, suitably constructed and suitably falsified world.”

—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §24 (edited excerpt).
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“Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.”

—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §26 (excerpt).
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