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Quotation from Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

“It was”: thus is the Will’s teeth-gnashing and lonesomest tribulation called”

Friedrich Nietzsche (spoken by Zarathustra)

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Part II, Discourse XLII: Redemption, trans. Thomas Common (1892)

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After speaking to the hunchback and the cripples on the bridge, Zarathustra traces revenge to the will's helplessness before the past.

Citation: "It was”: thus is the Will’s teeth-gnashing and lonesomest tribulation called" — Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Part II, Discourse XLII: Redemption, trans. Thomas Common (1892). (id thus-spoke-zarathustra-q11)

Portrait: Nietzsche187a, Friedrich Hermann Hartmann, Public domain.

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