“I love those who do not know how to live, except by going under, for they are those who cross over.”

—  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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