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Pieces of art are repurposed all the time, I am sure Nietzsche took it from somebody living even further back in the past.



Ecclesiastes 1:9

“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.”


Love Ecclesiastes, hands down the best bit of poetry in The Book.

Also "Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh" way before it exponentiated to the moon ...

Honourable mention to "For everything there is a season", as sung by The Byrds.


Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose


“What happens once will never happen again. What happens twice will surely happen a third time.”


The eternal return of the same :)




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