stackyFACTSThe man who proudly declared the death of god finally cracked under the pressure of his own genius. Witnessing a carriage driver aggressively whipping a horse in Turin, Nietzsche sprinted over, threw his arms around the animal's neck, collapsed in tears, and never spoke a coherent sentence again.
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