"Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein."
(Translation: Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process s/he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.)
Friedrich Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Böse (Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future), Aphorism 146.
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and that which does not kill you, by the way, makes you stronger
thank you for the reference, I have been looking for it for years -- years of abyss staring or monster fighting ...
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