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Misanthropy and love

One speaks of being sick of man only when one can no longer digest him and yet has one's stomach full of him. Misanthropy comes of an all too greedy love of man and "cannibalism"; but who asked you to swallow men like oysters, Prince Hamlet?

- Nietzsche, The Gay Science

Posted by uhtceara on March 26, 2007 9:58 AM |

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