“I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you have still chaos in you.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, book Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Variant: One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and cl… 1844–1900

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