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To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality. ✨ Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). Basic Writings of Nietzsche, p.273, Modern Library
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To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality. ✨ Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). Basic Writings of Nietzsche, p.273, Modern Library

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