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Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death.
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Too long, the earth has been a madhouse!
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My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth inside out into the light.
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Your god is dead and only the ignorant weep. And if you claim there is a hell, then we shall meet there!
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Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.
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To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness
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The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.
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