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Quotation from The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche

“Here, in this extremest danger of the will, _art_ approaches, as a saving and healing enchantress”

Friedrich Nietzsche (spoken by Nietzsche)

The Birth of Tragedy, §7, trans. William A. Haussmann (1909)

Portrait of Friedrich Nietzsche

Art, through the sublime and the comic, turns nauseating insight into representations that make life possible.

Citation: "Here, in this extremest danger of the will, _art_ approaches, as a saving and healing enchantress" — Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy, §7, trans. William A. Haussmann (1909). (id the-birth-of-tragedy-q10)

Portrait: Nietzsche187a, Friedrich Hermann Hartmann, Public domain.

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