"Nietzsche, like other young men of great intellectual gifts, was debilitated by the effects of masturbation."

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Aphorists19th-century philosophersComposers from GermanyCriticism of ChristianityExistentialists
Original Language: English

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Richard Wagner, as quoted by Siegfried Mandel in the Introduction to Nietzsche by Lou Salmoé (University of Illinois press, 2001), page 55