When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel Of Obsession
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“Nor have I ever allowed others to unburden themselves to me—I was unwilling to incur the debt of reciprocation. I avoided all this—until the day, of course”—he turned to face Breuer—“that I shook your hand and agreed to our strange contract.
Irvin D. Yalom • When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel Of Obsession
"Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844–1900) had a magnificent mustache and a peculiar relationship with animals. On the one hand, he pitied animals because, as he wrote in Untimely Meditations, they “cling to life, blindly and madly, with no other aim...with all the perverted desire of the fool.” (Justin Gregg, If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal)