Aphoristic Writings, Notebook, and Letters to a Friend, by Otto ...

Every man creates his woman, perhaps two women for himself: a prostitute, a
mother. Whether he makes a mother of her or not? It is dependent only upon his
relationship to the ethical.
Woman is the sphinx?
There is no more deplorable nonsense and impression:
One imperatively wants to seek for something behind woman, because one would
rather wait for all else than that there is simply nothing there. And so one arrives at
the thought to identify her with the sphinx, which she has no similarity with
whatsoever.
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Christ saved Magdalene – she was a prostitute so long as he was in the wilderness.
Ultimately, how can I blame women for waiting for a man? The man also wants
nothing but her. There is no man who would not take pleasure in exercising sexual
effect upon a woman.
The hatred of woman is always only the not yet overcome hatred of one's own
sexuality.
Innocence is ignorance. To know and remain innocent would be the highest.
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