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"Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.(Nietzsche)
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I know all the vocabs above, but I don't understand the sentence above. What does that mean?
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I know all the vocabs above, but I don't understand the sentence above. What does that mean?
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. this passage . .
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- this passage .
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- plays on a German expression, “Don’t paint the devil on the wall’—because by doing so you will cause him to appear.
- So Nietzsche, by painting his happiness on the wall, has caused that happiness to appear.
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. . . this passage . . . plays on a German expression, “Don’t paint the devil on the wall’—because by doing so you will cause him to appear. So Nietzsche, by painting his happiness on the wall, has caused that happiness to appear.
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