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As refined fare serves a hungry man as well as and no better than coarser food, the more pretentious artist will not dream of inviting the hungry man to his meal.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!
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The end of a melody is not its goal but nonetheless, if the melody had not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.
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Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.
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If you look long enough into the void, the void begins to look back through you.
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State, I call it, where they all drink poison, the good and the wicked state, where they all lose themselves, the good and the wicked state, where they all call their slow suicide-life.
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I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.
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