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Not joy but joylessness is the mother of debauchery. - Friedrich Nietzsche (Human, All Too Human Book Quotes)

Not joy but joylessness is the mother of debauchery.[Die Mutter der Ausschweifung ist nicht die Freude, sondern die Freudlosigkeit.]

Source:Human, All Too Human (1878), (London, ed. 1911), Part II, Miscellaneous Maxims and Opinions, Section 77, Page 43
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