“Many a man fails to become a thinker only because his memory is too good.”

—  Friedrich Nietzsche, book Human, All Too Human

Mancher wird nur deshalb kein Denker, weil sein Gedächtnis zu gut ist.
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Human, All Too Human (1878)

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