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A Snake Among Swans
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Friedrich Nietzsche
“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche
“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

John Updike
“To be human is to be in the tense condition of a death-foreseeing, consciously libidinous animal. No other earthly creature suffers such a capacity for thought, such a complexity of envisioned but frustrated possibilities, such a troubling ability to question the tribal and biological imperatives. ”
― John Updike

Johnny Cash
“Flesh and blood needs flesh and blood, and you're the one I need”
― Johnny Cash
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