How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which are eternally apart? (Friedrich Nietzsche)

How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which are eternally apart?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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