“If we live together with another person too closely, what happens is similar to when we repeatedly handle a good engraving with our bare hands: one day all we have left is a piece of dirty paper. The soul of a human being too can finally become tattered by being handled continually; and that is how it finally appears to us — we never see the beauty of its original design again.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 428
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