Marguerite Yourcenar vs. Friedrich Nietzsche
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Marguerite Yourcenar
1903 – 1987
Literature
United States
Marguerite Yourcenar was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist who became a US citizen in 1947. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Académie Française, in 1980. In 1965, she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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"Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul..."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
1844 – 1900
Philosophy
Kingdom of Prussia
German philosopher whose work challenged conventional morality and values.
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"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."
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