“How far I was then from all that resignationism!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche , book The Birth of Tragedy

Oh wie ferne war mir damals gerade dieser ganze Resignationismus!
"Attempt at a Self-criticism", p. 10
The Birth of Tragedy (1872)

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