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What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended by a thin thread.

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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Classical Philologist
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Frîdrîk Nîtşe
Fridrih Wilhelm Niče
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Federico Nietzsche
Frédéric Nietzsche
Friederich Nietzsche
Fryderyk Nietzsche
Fridrikh Nitche
Frederic Nietzsche
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Birth
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Given
Suspended
Nothing
Pregnancy
Work
Thread
Time
Thin
Life
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