--- title: "11 Long time Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche" description: "11 Long time quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche. Plus more from Friedrich Nietzsche and more Long time sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f5b/friedrich-nietzsche-15_evil_a-sure-way-to-irritate-people-and-to-put_1462586.jpg" --- > [A sure way to irritate people and to put evil thoughts into their heads is to keep them waiting a long time.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/a-sure-way-to-irritate-people-and-to-put-evil-thoughts-into-their/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f5b/friedrich-nietzsche-15_evil_a-sure-way-to-irritate-people-and-to-put_1462586.jpg) > [When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/when-you-stare-into-an-abyss-for-a-long-time-the-abyss-also-stares/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b7/friedrich-nietzsche-15_abyss_when-you-stare-into-an-abyss-for-a-long_2916721.jpg) > [With deep men, as with deep wells, it takes a long time for anything that falls into them to hit bottom. Onlookers,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/with-deep-men-as-with-deep-wells-it-takes-a-long-time-for-anything/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ec/friedrich-nietzsche-15_boredom_with-deep-men-as-with-deep-wells-it-take_2803722.jpg) > [He who has attained intellectual emancipation to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/he-who-has-attained-intellectual-emancipation-to-any-extent-cannot/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d36/friedrich-nietzsche-15_earth_he-who-has-attained-intellectual-emancip_829463.jpg) > [He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/he-who-has-attained-the-freedom-of-reason-to-any-extent-cannot-for-a/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f7a/friedrich-nietzsche-15_change_he-who-has-attained-the-freedom-of-reaso_81601.jpg) > [“The slow arrow of beauty. The most noble kind of beauty is that which does not carry us away suddenly, whose attacks…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/the-slow-arrow-of-beauty-the-most-noble-kind-of-beauty-is-that-which/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf7/friedrich-nietzsche-15_beauty_the-slow-arrow-of-beauty-the-most-noble_3048677.jpg) > [“Even when in the deepest distress, the actor ultimately cannot cease to think of the impression he and the whole scenic effect…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/even-when-in-the-deepest-distress-the-actor-ultimately-cannot-cease/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f81/friedrich-nietzsche-15_every-man_even-when-in-the-deepest-distress-the-ac_192445.jpg) > [“Let us face ourselves. We are Hyperboreans; we know very well how far off we live. 'Neither by land nor by sea…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/let-us-face-ourselves-we-are-hyperboreans-we-know-very-well-how-far/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/949/friedrich-nietzsche-15_happiness_let-us-face-ourselves-we-are-hyperborean_940902.jpg) > [“My dear friend, what is this our life? A boat that swims in the sea, and all one knows for certain about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/my-dear-friend-what-is-this-our-life-a-boat-that-swims-in-the-sea-and/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2e/friedrich-nietzsche-15_calm-seas_my-dear-friend-what-is-this-our-life-a-b_402807.jpg) > [“In belief in what? In love with what? In hope for what?—There’s no doubt that these weak people—at some time or another…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/in-belief-in-what-in-love-with-what-in-hope-for-what-there-s-no-doubt/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01b/friedrich-nietzsche-15_eternal-life_in-belief-in-what-in-love-with-what-in-h_3016594.jpg) > [“The free spirit again draws near to life - slowly, to be sure, almost reluctantly, almost mistrustfully. It again grows warmer about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/the-free-spirit-again-draws-near-to-life-slowly-to-be-sure-almost/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/920/friedrich-nietzsche-15_convalescence_the-free-spirit-again-draws-near-to-life_1288926.jpg) ## Other authors on Long time ## More by Friedrich Nietzsche > [Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/animals-know-nothing-of-themselves-and-they-also-know-nothing-of-the/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/every-select-man-strives-instinctively-for-a-citadel-and-a-privacy/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [“It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril. You are not yet free, you still search for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/it-breaks-my-heart-better-than-your-words-your-eye-tells-me-all-your/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/79-a-soul-which-knows-that-it-is-loved-but-does-not-itself-love/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/we-deceive-ourselves-when-giving-respect-to-the-person-for-whom-we/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/the-great-periods-of-our-life-occur-when-we-gain-the-courage-to/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/what-is-life-life-that-is-continually-shedding-something-that-wants/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/it-is-thus-only-this-personal-feeling-of-misery-that-we-get-rid-of-by/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/writers-whose-thoughts-are-expressed-with-clarity-and-precision-are/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [“he does not wear a twitching, mobile, human face, but rather a mask, as it were, with its features in dignified equilibrium; he does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/he-does-not-wear-a-twitching-mobile-human-face-but-rather-a-mask-as/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/chastity-is-a-virtue-with-some-but-with-many-it-is-almost-a-vice/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/the-earth-is-like-the-breasts-of-a-woman-useful-as-well-as-pleasing/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/of-all-that-is-written-i-love-only-what-a-man-has-written-in-his-own/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/no-shepherd-and-one-herd-everybody-wants-the-same-everybody-is-the/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [Pain makes hens and poets cackle.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/pain-makes-hens-and-poets-cackle/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/long-time/friedrich-nietzsche/#itemlist", "name": "11 Long time Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A sure way to irritate people and to put evil thoughts into their heads is to keep them waiting a long time. 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But he certainly wants to observe and keep his eyes open to whatever actually happens in the world; therefore he cannot attach his heart too firmly to anything individual; he must have in himself something wandering that takes pleasure in change and transitoriness.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Friedrich Nietzsche" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/he-who-has-attained-the-freedom-of-reason-to-any-extent-cannot-for-a/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f7a/friedrich-nietzsche-15_change_he-who-has-attained-the-freedom-of-reaso_81601.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f7a/friedrich-nietzsche-15_change_he-who-has-attained-the-freedom-of-reaso_81601.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f7a/friedrich-nietzsche-15_change_he-who-has-attained-the-freedom-of-reaso_81601.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise…” — Friedrich Nietzsche", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 6, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The slow arrow of beauty. The most noble kind of beauty is that which does not carry us away suddenly, whose attacks are not violent or intoxicating (this kind easily awakens disgust), but rather the kind of beauty which infiltrates slowly, which we carry along with us almost unnoticed, and meet up with again in dreams; finally, after it has for a long time lain modestly in our heart, it takes complete possession of us, filling our eyes with tears, our hearts with longing. What do we long for when we see beauty? To be beautiful. We think much happiness must be connected with it. But that is an error.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Friedrich Nietzsche" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/the-slow-arrow-of-beauty-the-most-noble-kind-of-beauty-is-that-which/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf7/friedrich-nietzsche-15_beauty_the-slow-arrow-of-beauty-the-most-noble_3048677.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf7/friedrich-nietzsche-15_beauty_the-slow-arrow-of-beauty-the-most-noble_3048677.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf7/friedrich-nietzsche-15_beauty_the-slow-arrow-of-beauty-the-most-noble_3048677.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The slow arrow of beauty. The most noble kind of beauty is that which does not carry us away suddenly, whose…” — Friedrich Nietzsche", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 7, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Even when in the deepest distress, the actor ultimately cannot cease to think of the impression he and the whole scenic effect is making, even for example at the burial of his own child; he will weep over his own distress and the ways in which it expresses itself, as his own audience. The hypocrite who always plays one and the same role finally ceases to be a hypocrite; for example priests, who as young men are usually conscious or unconscious hypocrites, finally become natural and then really are priests without any affectation; or if the father fails to get that far then perhaps the son does so, employing his father's start and inheriting his habits. If someone obstinately and for a long time wants to appear something it is int he end hard for him to be anything else. The profession of almost every man, even that of the artist, begins with hypocrisy, with an imitation from without, with a copying of what is most effective. He who is always wearing a mask of a friendly countenance must finally acquire a power over benevolent moods without which the impression of friendliness cannot be obtained - and finally these acquire power over him, he is benevolent.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Friedrich Nietzsche" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/even-when-in-the-deepest-distress-the-actor-ultimately-cannot-cease/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f81/friedrich-nietzsche-15_every-man_even-when-in-the-deepest-distress-the-ac_192445.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f81/friedrich-nietzsche-15_every-man_even-when-in-the-deepest-distress-the-ac_192445.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f81/friedrich-nietzsche-15_every-man_even-when-in-the-deepest-distress-the-ac_192445.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Even when in the deepest distress, the actor ultimately cannot cease to think of the impression he and the…” — Friedrich Nietzsche", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 8, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Let us face ourselves. We are Hyperboreans; we know very well how far off we live. 'Neither by land nor by sea will you find the way to the Hyperboreans'—Pindar already knew this about us. Beyond the north, ice, and death—our life, our happiness. We have discovered happiness, we know the way, we have found the exit out of the labyrinth of thousands of years. Who else has found it? Modern man perhaps? 'I have got lost; I am everything that has got lost,' sighs modern man. This modernity was our sickness: lazy peace, cowardly compromise, the whole virtuous uncleanliness of the modern Yes and No. … Rather live in the ice than among modern virtues and other south winds! We were intrepid enough, we spared neither ourselves nor others; but for a long time we did not know where to turn with our intrepidity. We became gloomy, we were called fatalists. Our fatum—abundance, tension, the damming of strength. We thirsted for lightning and deeds and were most remote from the happiness of the weakling, 'resignation.' In our atmosphere was a thunderstorm; the nature we are became dark—for we saw no way. Formula for our happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Friedrich Nietzsche" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/let-us-face-ourselves-we-are-hyperboreans-we-know-very-well-how-far/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/949/friedrich-nietzsche-15_happiness_let-us-face-ourselves-we-are-hyperborean_940902.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/949/friedrich-nietzsche-15_happiness_let-us-face-ourselves-we-are-hyperborean_940902.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/949/friedrich-nietzsche-15_happiness_let-us-face-ourselves-we-are-hyperborean_940902.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Let us face ourselves. We are Hyperboreans; we know very well how far off we live. 'Neither by land nor by…” — Friedrich Nietzsche", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 9, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“My dear friend, what is this our life? A boat that swims in the sea, and all one knows for certain about it is that one day it will capsize. Here we are, two good old boats that have been faithful neighbors, and above all your hand has done its best to keep me from \"capsizing\"! Let us then continue our voyage—each for the other's sake, for a long time yet, a long time! We should miss each other so much! Tolerably calm seas and good winds and above all sun—what I wish for myself, I wish for you, too, and am sorry that my gratitude can find expression only in such a wish and has no influence at all on wind or weather!”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Friedrich Nietzsche" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/my-dear-friend-what-is-this-our-life-a-boat-that-swims-in-the-sea-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2e/friedrich-nietzsche-15_calm-seas_my-dear-friend-what-is-this-our-life-a-b_402807.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2e/friedrich-nietzsche-15_calm-seas_my-dear-friend-what-is-this-our-life-a-b_402807.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2e/friedrich-nietzsche-15_calm-seas_my-dear-friend-what-is-this-our-life-a-b_402807.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“My dear friend, what is this our life? A boat that swims in the sea, and all one knows for certain about it…” — Friedrich Nietzsche", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“In belief in what? In love with what? In hope for what?—There’s no doubt that these weak people—at some time or another they also want to be the strong people, some day their \"kingdom\" is to arrive—they call it simply \"the kingdom of God\" as I mentioned. People are indeed so humble about everything! Only to experience that, one has to live a long time, beyond death—in fact, people must have an eternal life, so they can also win eternal recompense in the \"kingdom of God\" for that earthly life \"in faith, in love, in hope.\" Recompense for what? Recompense through what? In my view, Dante was grossly in error when, with an ingenuity inspiring terror, he set that inscription over the gateway into his hell:\"Eternal love also created me.\" Over the gateway into the Christian paradise and its \"eternal blessedness\" it would, in any event, be more fitting to let the inscription stand \"Eternal hate also created me\"—provided it’s all right to set a truth over the gateway to a lie! For what is the bliss of that paradise? Perhaps we might have guessed that already, but it is better for it to be expressly described for us by an authority we cannot underestimate in such matters, Thomas Aquinas, the great teacher and saint: \"In the kingdom of heaven\" he says as gently as a lamb, \"the blessed will see the punishment of the damned, so that they will derive all the more pleasure from their heavenly bliss.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Friedrich Nietzsche" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/in-belief-in-what-in-love-with-what-in-hope-for-what-there-s-no-doubt/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01b/friedrich-nietzsche-15_eternal-life_in-belief-in-what-in-love-with-what-in-h_3016594.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01b/friedrich-nietzsche-15_eternal-life_in-belief-in-what-in-love-with-what-in-h_3016594.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01b/friedrich-nietzsche-15_eternal-life_in-belief-in-what-in-love-with-what-in-h_3016594.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“In belief in what? In love with what? In hope for what?—There’s no doubt that these weak people—at some time…” — Friedrich Nietzsche", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The free spirit again draws near to life - slowly, to be sure, almost reluctantly, almost mistrustfully. It again grows warmer about him, yellower as it were; feeling and feeling for others acquire depth, warm breezes of all kind blow across him. It seems to him as if his eyes are only now open to what is close at hand. he is astonished and sits silent: where had he been? These close and closest things: how changed they seem! what bloom and magic they have acquired! He looks back gratefully - grateful to his wandering, to his hardness and self-alienation, to his viewing of far distances and bird-like flights in cold heights. What a good thing he had not always stayed \"at home,\" stayed \"under his own roof\" like a delicate apathetic loafer! He had been -beside himself-: no doubt about that. Only now does he see himself - and what surprises he experiences as he does so! What unprecedented shudders! What happiness even in the weariness, the old sickness, the relapses of the convalescent! How he loves to sit sadly still, to spin out patience, to lie in the sun! Who understands as he does the joy that comes in winter, the spots of sunlight on the wall! They are the most grateful animals in the world, also the most modest, these convalescents and lizards again half-turned towards life: - there are some among them who allow no day to pass without hanging a little song of praise on the hem of its departing robe. And to speak seriously: to become sick in the manner of these free spirits, to remain sick for a long time and then, slowly, slowly, to become healthy, by which I mean \"healthier,\" is a fundamental cure for all pessimism.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Friedrich Nietzsche" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/the-free-spirit-again-draws-near-to-life-slowly-to-be-sure-almost/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/920/friedrich-nietzsche-15_convalescence_the-free-spirit-again-draws-near-to-life_1288926.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/920/friedrich-nietzsche-15_convalescence_the-free-spirit-again-draws-near-to-life_1288926.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/920/friedrich-nietzsche-15_convalescence_the-free-spirit-again-draws-near-to-life_1288926.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The free spirit again draws near to life - slowly, to be sure, almost reluctantly, almost mistrustfully. 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