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Human, All-Too-Human, Part 1

Note 1 — FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE (continued 3)

Helen Zimmern translation

The allusion is to Goethe's lines:

Die Sterne, die begehrt man nicht, Man freut sich ihrer Pracht.

We do not want the stars themselves, Their brilliancy delights our hearts.—J.M.K.

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