"Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed."
"Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell."
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Source: The Very Best of Friedrich Nietzsche: Quotes from a Great Thinker by David Graham, (p. 4), September 22, 2014.
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