Quotes from book
When Nietzsche Wept

Irvin D. Yalom
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“It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!”

Irvin D. Yalom book When Nietzsche Wept

Source: When Nietzsche Wept

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