“The day's length. If a man has a great deal to put in them, a day will have a hundred pockets.”

—  Friedrich Nietzsche , book Human, All Too Human

Section IX, "Man Alone with Himself" / aphorism 529
Human, All Too Human (1878), Helen Zimmern translation

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Die Länge des Tages. - Wenn man viel hineinzustecken hat, so hat ein Tag hundert Taschen.

Human, All Too Human (1878), Helen Zimmern translation

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