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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche: "unegoistic"? But you fools--! "And the praise of the self-
sacrificer?"--But whoever has really offered sacrifice knows that
he wanted and obtained something for it--perhaps something from
himself for something from himself; that he relinquished here in
order to have more there, perhaps in general to be more, or even
feel himself "more." But this is a realm of questions and answers
in which a more fastidious spirit does not like to stay: for here
truth has to stifle her yawns so much when she is obliged to
answer. And after all, truth is a woman; one must not use force
with her.
221. "It sometimes happens," said a moralistic pedant and trifle-
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