Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

1844 - 1900

This is the hardest of all; to close the open hand of love, and keep modest as a giver.

Thus Spake Zarathustra

Love is the state in which man sees things most widely different from what they are. The force of illusion reaches its zenith here, as likewise the sweetening and transfiguring power. When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything.

The Antichrist; aphorism 23

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