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The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be… — Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosophical literature

The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.

In the original German

Der Gedanke an den Selbstmord ist ein starkes Trostmittel: mit ihm kommt man gut über manche böse Nacht hinweg.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil · 1886
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Topic
Suicide
Genre
Philosophical literature
Time
1886
Person
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Current citation
Nietzsche, Friedrich. Beyond Good and Evil, translated by R. J. Hollingdale. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 4, no. 157.
Original citation
Nietzsche, Friedrich. Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft [Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future]. Leipzig: C. G. Naumann, 1886, ch. 4, no. 157.

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