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> [“The time is gone when mere accidents could still happen to me; and what could still come to me now that was not mine already? What returns, what finally comes home to me, is my own self and what of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/the-time-is-gone-when-mere-accidents-could-still-happen-to-me-and/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

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