Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

There are highly gifted spirits who are always infertile simply because, owing to a weakness in temperament, they are too impatient to wait out their pregnancy to term.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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• There are highly gifted spirits who are always infertile simply because, owing to a weakness in temperament, they are too impatient to wait out their pregnancy to term.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Wait
  • Pregnancy
  • Spirits