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Nietzsche, who you don't spend too much time with after the age of seventeen, did have that one great line about "he who stares into the abyss must know that the abyss also stares into him" and i never really understood that until my friend got killed and you really get your head around the idea of what horror means. it's a truly awful thing, to really, kind of have that understanding of things and when you really peer into that.
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Nietzsche, Who You Don't Spend Too Much

Henry Rollins
Nietzsche, who you don't spend too much time with after the age of seventeen, did have that one great line about "he who stares into the abyss must know that the abyss also stares into him" and i never really understood that until my friend got killed and you really get your head around the idea of what horror means. it's a truly awful thing, to really, kind of have that understanding of things and when you really peer into that.
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