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Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

More from Friedrich Nietzsche

  1. Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier, simpler.
  2. Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon.
  3. Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and m…
  4. To what extent can truth endure incorporation? That is the question; that is the experiment.
  5. But let us not forget this either: it is enough to create new names and estimations and probabilities in order to create in the long run ne…
  6. Gott ist tot! Gott bleibt tot! Und wir haben ihn getotet. Aph. 125
  7. Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.
  8. Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

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Topics in this quote

  • creativity
  • literature
  • writing
  • poetry
  • dialogue
  • prose
  • style

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