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Quotation from Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

“Was THAT—life?’ will I say unto death. ‘Well! Once more”

Friedrich Nietzsche (spoken by The ugliest man)

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Part IV, Discourse LXXIX: The Drunken Song, §1, trans. Thomas Common (1892)

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The murderer of God becomes the first of the higher men to affirm recurrence, after a single festive day with Zarathustra.

Citation: "Was THAT—life?’ will I say unto death. ‘Well! Once more" — Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Part IV, Discourse LXXIX: The Drunken Song, §1, trans. Thomas Common (1892). (id thus-spoke-zarathustra-q15)

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