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A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being.
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Christianity gave Eros poison to drink he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.
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