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He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.
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“He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Thus Spake Zarathustra
Date
1883–1885
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Thomas Common — Translator · from German
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Distance and a wider perspective can change the scale of what once seemed overwhelming, even when the underlying difficulty has not vanished.

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Thus Spake Zarathustra, “Reading and Writing,” Thomas Common translation.

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