“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”

—  Friedrich Nietzsche, book Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and cl… 1844–1900

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