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How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which are eternally apart?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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Classical Philologist
Classical Scholar
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Philologist
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Frîdrîk Nîtşe
Fridrih Wilhelm Niče
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Federico Nietzsche
Frédéric Nietzsche
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Fryderyk Nietzsche
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Phreiderikos Nitse
Bridges
Apart
Lovely
Sounds
Sound
Illusive
Words
Rainbows
Things
Eternally
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