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Nietzsche's Literary Remains

“We Lizards of Happiness”

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Jillian Hess
Mar 17, 2025
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When I first read Friedrich Nietzsche’s (1844–1900) Thus Spoke Zarathustra as a teenager, I felt his clarion call to think differently. To question received wisdom. To rebel against the intellectual status quo. Entranced by Nietzsche’s poetic writing, I was ennobled by the new ideas flitting through my mind. Nietzsche was the perfect accomplice to my ow…

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