Book: When Nietzsche wept. Page 2

On those rare occasions when I was overcome with loneliness, I allowed myself to public outpouring of his sufferings, an hour later I shuddered from disgust to myself, I have become a stranger to myself, as if I had lost their own companies. I also did not allow anyone to be Frank with me - I did not feel the slightest desire to incur debt mutual revelations.

Serious man needs friends. When everything collapses, he still has his gods. But I have no friends, no gods. In me as in you, live the passion and nothing can compare with a passionate desire of perfect friendship, friendship interpares among equals. What intoxicating words - interpares, the words in which joy and hope for someone like me who was always alone, who always sought, but never met one who exactly suits him.
Sometimes I have poured my heart out in letters to his sister, friends, but when I meet people face to face, I look away ashamed.

Have the courage to change their beliefs!

Each person must determine for themselves how much truth he can handle.

But now I have nothing left!
Nothing has it all! To become strong, you first need to take root in nothing and learn to live in the most lonely solitude.

Ask yourself: "Who is calm, who is secure, comfortable and endlessly cheerful?" I will tell you the answer: only those who sees the bad - the people and children!"

It is wrong to bear children is influenced by needs, it is wrong to use children to fill their loneliness, wrong to give meaning to his life, is producing another copy of himself. Wrong and to try to achieve immortality by sending in the future of his seed, as if the sperm was kept out!

... life goes on without me. I would've gone anyway, in ten years or twenty. If you look at it from space, what's the difference when?

... he will be forgotten, the place that he occupied, will be absorbed by time and the existence of the other. In ten or twenty years he will die. And he dies alone no matter who is beside us, because we die alone.

To raise my children, you must grow yourself. Otherwise you will have children from loneliness, under the influence of animal instincts, or to caulk the holes in yourself.

... much easier to live with a stained reputation than with a bad conscience.

Breuer gestured to the fresh flowers lying on most of the graves: "In this country, the death of those dead, and those - he waved a hand toward the abandoned unkempt part of the cemetery, those really dead. No one watches over their graves, because no one now living ever knew them. They know what it's like to be dead."

Funny: in his childhood he was armed with the concept that he was not able to see in all its glory, he was "extraordinarily gifted man" - as we all are, but did not understand what was this talent. He did not understand that his duty is to improve the nature, overcoming themselves, their culture, their family, lust, of gross animal nature, to become who he is and what he is. He never grew up, never shed its first skin: he saw his vocation in the achievement of material and professional goals. And when he had done all this, and not drowning out the voice that told him to "Be yourself", he despaired and started to complain that he had been deceived. Even now, he doesn't understand!

I am not accustomed to having to merge with a total mass of to live among the people. My social interaction skills, confidence, caring for others has long been atrophied. Of course, if they ever had a place to be. I've always been alone. And I will remain one till the end. I accept this fate.