“Some are born posthumously.”

—  Friedrich Nietzsche

Einige werden posthum geboren.
Foreword
The Antichrist (1888)
Source: The Anti-Christ

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Einige werden posthum geboren.

The Antichrist (1888)
Source: The Anti-Christ

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