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Yes, I know from where I came!
Ever hungry like a flame,
I consume myself and glow.
Light grows all that I conceive,
Ashes everything I leave:
Flame I am assuredly.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We are like fire that sleeps in the dry branch or in the coal, and ever we struggle and seek for an end to our cramped confinement. But they come, they make up for aeons of struggle, the moments when we are set free, when the divine shatters the prison, when the flame bursts from the wood and flies up over the ashes, ah! when it is with us as if, its sorrows and its servitude forgotten, the un­ shackled spirit were returning in triumph to the halls of the Sun.

— Friedrich Hölderlin