“A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.”

—  Friedrich Nietzsche , book On the Genealogy of Morality

Essay 3, Aphorism 16
On the Genealogy of Morality (1887)

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