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Quotation from Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

“For singing is for the convalescent; the sound ones may talk”

Friedrich Nietzsche (spoken by Zarathustra's animals)

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Part III, Discourse LVII: The Convalescent, trans. Thomas Common (1892)

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After Zarathustra has lain seven days without eating, his animals urge him back into the world and offer song as the convalescent's medicine.

Citation: "For singing is for the convalescent; the sound ones may talk" — Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Part III, Discourse LVII: The Convalescent, trans. Thomas Common (1892). (id thus-spoke-zarathustra-q13)

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