love as a passion—it is our European specialty

Friedrich Nietzsche
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love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the gai saber, to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself. ✨ Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche, p.666, Simon and Schuster
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