Tear off the mask. Your face is glorious. —Rumi

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It is easy to know the beauty of inhuman things, sea, storm and mountain; it is their soul and their meaning. Humanity has its lesser beauty, impure and painful; we have to harden our hearts to bear it.


—Robinson Jeffers
The World’s Wonders

 

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You say ‘I’ and you are proud of this word. But greater than this — although you will not believe in it — is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say ‘I’ but performs ‘I’.


—Friedrich Nietzsche
Thus Spoke Zarathustra

 

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The strength of a person’s spirit would then be measured by how much ‘truth’ he could tolerate, or more precisely, to what extent he needs to have it diluted, disguised, sweetened, muted, falsified.


—Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil

 

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People think that the world itself is overflowing with beauty,

but they forget that they are its cause.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

Twilight of the Idols

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