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Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it. ✨ Mixed Opinions and Maxims by Friedrich Nietzsche, aphorism 370, The Danger in Admiration, 1879.
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Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it. ✨ Mixed Opinions and Maxims by Friedrich Nietzsche, aphorism 370, The Danger in Admiration, 1879.

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