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The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.
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The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions they cease to be mind.
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