Everyone who enjoys supposes that the tree was concerned with the frui…

Friedrich Nietzsche
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Everyone who enjoys supposes that the tree was concerned with the fruit, but it was really concerned with the seed. -In this lies the difference between all those who create and those who enjoy.
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