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Friedrich Nietzsche
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If there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god? Therefore there are no gods. ✨ Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2003). Thus Spake Zarathustra, p.64, Algora Publishing
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