Dear Professor:

……In the end I would much rather be a Basel professor than God; but I have not dared push my private egoism so far as to desist for its sake from the creation of the world. You see, one must make sacrifices however and wherever one lives. . . .
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— Letter from Friedrich Nietzsche to Jacob Burckhardt, January 6, 1989; it resulted in Nietzsche’s institutionalization