It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to … - Friedrich Nietzsche

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You know, you’re pretty when you smile,” she said, patting the side of his cheek. “Fierce, woman. I am fierce. ” “If you say so.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such great restraint, don so many masks, lay itself so often on the procrustean bed of virtue, that one could well speak of a martyrdom of the evil man. In solitude all this falls away. He who is evil is at his most evil in solitude: which is where he is at his best - and thus to the eye of him who sees everywhere only a spectacle also at his most beautiful.

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