Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers s…

Friedrich Nietzsche
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Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. ✨ The Will to Power. Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1888.
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