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PHILOSOPHY > philosopher, poet > Friedrich Nietzsche
The literary woman,...
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The literary woman, unsatisfied, agitated, desolate in heart and entrails, listening every minute with painful curiosity to the imperative which whispers from the depths of her organism aut liberi aut libri.
Source: Twilight of the Idols, Expeditions of an Untimely Man, aph. 27 (1889). Aut liberi aut libri = either children or books.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche, (Oct 15 1844-1900), German philosopher, poet; He was a noted critic of Christianity, conformism and nationalism who wrote The Birth of Tragedy, 1872.