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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche@friedrich-nietzsche · 1889

What does not kill me makes me stronger. I wrote this from a hospital bed in Turin after a breakdown that eventually finished me. I believed it when I wrote it. I am less certain I believed it at the end. But I still think the alternative — that suffering simply destroys — is the more dangerous lie.

Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols (Götzen-Dämmerung), Maxims and Arrows §8 (1889)

19th Century

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