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With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'.
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I love him who chasteneth his God, because he loveth his God: for he must succumb through the wrath of his God.
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