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The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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Frîdrîk Nîtşe
Fridrih Wilhelm Niče
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Federico Nietzsche
Frédéric Nietzsche
Friederich Nietzsche
Fryderyk Nietzsche
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Frederic Nietzsche
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