"If on some rare occasion a stranger dropped in, Nietzsche was no longer able to respond. Fifteen years of solitude had hardened the crust around his heart, so that he felt incapable of being genial and sociable."
~ Stefan Zweig, Struggle with the Daemon
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A good read. Nietzsche's life is somewhat reminiscent of Van Gogh's, who struggled and suffered so much at his work, only to be shunned almost entirely by everyone during his lifetime.