Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reali…

Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life. ✨ The Birth of Tragedy. Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Preface to Richard Wagner (p. 13), 1872.
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