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justas
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"wish to mislead to a false conclusion. There are free insolent
minds which would fain conceal and deny that they are
broken,proud,incurable hearts (thecynicismof Hamlet "
the case of Galiani) ; and occasionallyfollyitself is the
mask "
of an unfortunate over-assured knowledge. From
which it follows that it is the part of a more refined humanity
to have reverence "for the mask," and not to make use
of psychologyand
curiosity in the wrong
place.
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That which separatestwo men most profoundlyis a different
sense and grade of purity. What does it matter
about all their honestyand reciprocal usefulness, what
does
it matter about all their mutual good-will: the fact still
remains "
"cannot smell each other!" The highestinstinct
for purityplaceshim who is affected with it in the
most extraordinaryand dangerousisolation, as a saint: for
it is holiness" just the highestspiritualisation of the instinct
in question.Any kind of cognisanceof an indescribable
excess in the joy of the bath,any kind of ardour or
thirst which perpetuallyimpels the soul out of night into
the morning, and out of gloom, out of "affliction" into
clearness,brightness, depth,and refinement: "
much
as such a "
tendencydistinguishesit is a noble tendency"
it also "
separates. ^The
pityof the saint is pityfor the filth
of the human, all-too-human. And there are grades and
heightswere pityitselfis regardedby him as impurity,as
filth.
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Signsof nobility:never to think of loweringour duties
to the rank of duties for everybody;to be unwillingto re-