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Nietzsche, Friedrich The Will to Power 1968 p.349 Book Nietzsche Citations Power, Nietzsche, Consciousness, Pleasure
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The Will to Power

by Nietzsche, Friedrich (1968)

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Ultimately it is not only the feeling of power, but the pleasure in creating and in the thing created; for all activity enters our consciousness as consciousness of a “work”. (p.349)

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Power, Nietzsche, Consciousness, Pleasure

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Nietzsche Citations

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Hollingdale KA

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