“you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame;
how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?”

— 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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