“Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“Is it better to outmonster the monsters or to be quietly devoured?”
— Laurell K. Hamilton, book Bullet
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