"Is the world really beautified by the fact that man thinks it beautiful? He has humanized it, that is all.

Generally speaking, punishment makes men hard and cold; it concentrates; it sharpens the feeling of alienation; it strengthens the power of resistance
~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~











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