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“One must pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, book Ecce homo
Man büßt es theuer, unsterblich zu sein: man stirbt dafür mehrere Male bei Lebzeiten.
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Ecce Homo (1888)
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