But like infection is the petty thought: it creeps and hides, and want…

Friedrich Nietzsche
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But like infection is the petty thought: it creeps and hides, and wants to be nowhere--until the whole body is decayed and withered by the petty infection... Thus spoke Zarathustra.
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