In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be…

Friedrich Nietzsche
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In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the world only once and that no imaginable chance will for a second time gather together into a unity so strangely variegated an assortment as he is: he knows it but hides it like a bad conscience. ✨ Friedrich Nietzsche, Daniel Breazeale, R. J. Hollingdale (1983). Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations, p.127, Cambridge University Press
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