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Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Friedrich Nietzsche · 1883

Skip the plot, everyone can find that. Readers keep the residue here: the sentence that survived after the cover closed.

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What did Thus Spoke Zarathustra leave in you?

One sentence. Forget the review voice. Write the line you'd underline and whisper to a friend on the train.

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Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman, a rope over an abyss. Read slowly, then live loudly.
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Carried byPetra09 MAR 2026
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What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end. The bridge metaphor carried me for a year.
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Carried byIlan09 APR 2026
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One must have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star. My mess filed for purpose.
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Carried byWren09 MAY 2026
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The last man blinked. Nietzsche described 2026 in 1883 and asked us to want more.
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Carried byTheo09 JUN 2026
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He who fights with monsters should see to it that he does not become one. The abyss gaze warning, evergreen.
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Carried byGrace09 JUL 2026
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Become who you are. Three words, one assignment, no deadline.
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Carried byRosa09 AUG 2026
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The spirit becomes camel, lion, child. Three transformations and I'm stuck between lion and child.
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Carried byOwen09 SEP 2026
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Zarathustra's animals speak and I listened harder than at any conference.
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Carried byAmir09 OCT 2026
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Joy wants eternity. Joy wants the eternity of all things. Read it at a wedding, meant it at a funeral.
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Carried byCamila21 OCT 2026
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Carried out of it: it's a poem pretending to be philosophy pretending to be a sermon. Read it as a dare.
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Carried byPetra28 OCT 2026