I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

About Friedrich Nietzsche

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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher and writer who started his career as a classical philologist and turned to philosophy early in his academic career. In 1869, at age 24, he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel....

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In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions—as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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Boys will lie, cheat, and steal to get into your pants. A man will stand the test of time. Make him wait, and you'll see which one he is.

—Penelope Douglas in Falling Away

Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie;
But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain
Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.

—William Shakespeare

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

—Marguerite Duras

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I'm so tired of people lying to me. Do I not deserve the truth? Do I look like someone who can't handle it?

—Kasie West in Split Second

When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand.

—Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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