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“This last mouthful of life was the toughest I have ever had to chew, and it is still possible I shall choke on it. … I am straining every fibre of me self-control, but I have lived alone too long, fed too long on my own fat, so now I am being broken as no one else could be on the wheel of my own passions.”
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
His romantic aspirations for Ms. Lou Andreas-Salome have fallen through, and he does not care much for his life with his mother and sister, and there is always his failing health. He told his friend Mr. Overbeck, “Unless I can learn the alchemist’s trick of turning this filth into gold, I am lost.”
[Source: Ronald Hayman, “Nietzsche: A Critical Life”]
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
His romantic aspirations for Ms. Lou Andreas-Salome have fallen through, and he does not care much for his life with his mother and sister, and there is always his failing health. He told his friend Mr. Overbeck, “Unless I can learn the alchemist’s trick of turning this filth into gold, I am lost.”
[Source: Ronald Hayman, “Nietzsche: A Critical Life”]
