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“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”

Niemand kann dir die Brücke bauen, auf der gerade du über den Fluß des Lebens schreiten mußt, niemand außer dir allein.
“Schopenhauer as educator,” § 3.1, R. Hollingdale, trans. (1983), p. 129
Untimely Meditations (1876)

“The knight of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies, but also to hate his friends.”

Der Mensch der Erkenntniss muss nicht nur seine Feinde lieben, er muss auch seine Freunde hassen können.
Foreword, in the Oscar Levy authorized translation.
Variant translations:
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Ecce Homo (1888)

“There are no facts, only interpretations.”

Notebooks (Summer 1886 – Fall 1887)
Variant translation: Against that positivism which stops before phenomena, saying "there are only facts," I should say: no, it is precisely facts that do not exist, only interpretations…
As translated in The Portable Nietzsche (1954) by Walter Kaufmann, p. 458

“What does not kill him, makes him stronger.”

… was ihn nicht umbringt, macht ihn stärker
"Why I Am So Wise", 2
Cf. Twilight of the Idols (1888), "Maxims and Arrows", aphorism 8: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
Ecce Homo (1888)

“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.”

Source: Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None

“Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”

Variant: One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.
Source: Beyond Good and Evil

“What does your conscience say? — "You shall become the person you are."”

Was sagt dein Gewissen?
'Du sollst der werden, der du bist.'
Variant translation: Become who you are.
It is noted here http://www.anonymityone.com/Faq97.htm, here http://www.google.it/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&q=%22Become%20who%20you%20are%22+Pindar+Nietzsche&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbm=bks and here http://www.google.it/search?num=100&hl=it&safe=off&biw=1440&bih=690&q=%22%28become+what+you+are%29+after+the+ancient+Greek+poet+Pindar.+See+Ecce+Homo+%28Nietzsche%29%22 that the phrase was first used by Pindar, and was merely re-used by Nietzsche.
Sec. 270
The Gay Science (1882)

“Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.”

Variant: Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.