“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“The point was to learn what it was we feared more: being misunderstood or being betrayed.”
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