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Youth is an unpleasant period for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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