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    "title": "The Gay Science",
    "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
    "date": "1882; expanded edition in 1887",
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            "text": "119. Kein Altruismus! — Ich sehe an vielen Menschen eine überschüssige Kraft und Lust, Function sein zu wollen; sie drängen sich dorthin und haben die feinste Witterung für alle jene Stellen, wo gerade sie Function sein können. Dahin gehören jene Frauen, die sich in die Function eines Mannes verwandeln, welche an ihm gerade schwach entwickelt ist, und dergestalt zu seinem Geldbeutel oder zu seiner Politik oder zu seiner Geselligkeit werden. Solche Wesen erhalten sich selber am besten, wenn sie sich in einen fremden Organismus einfügen; gelingt es ihnen nicht, so werden sie ärgerlich, gereizt und fressen sich selber auf.",
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            "text": "119. No Altruism! In many people I see a superabundant strength and desire to be a function; they press toward that end and possess the finest instinct for all those places where they in particular can be a function. Among these are those women who transform themselves into the function of a man that happens to be weakly developed in him, and thus become his purse, or his politics, or his sociability. Such beings preserve themselves best when they fit themselves into an alien organism; if they do not succeed, they become angry and irritable and consume themselves.",
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            "text": "119. Pas d’altruisme ! Je vois chez beaucoup d’êtres humains un excédent de force et de plaisir à vouloir être une fonction ; ils se pressent vers ce rôle et possèdent le flair le plus subtil pour tous les endroits où ils peuvent précisément servir de fonction. Parmi eux se trouvent ces femmes qui se transforment en une fonction d’un homme, celle qui est justement peu développée chez lui, et deviennent ainsi sa bourse, sa politique ou sa sociabilité. De tels êtres se conservent le mieux lorsqu’ils s’intègrent à un organisme étranger ; s’ils n’y réussissent pas, ils deviennent hargneux, irritables et se dévorent eux-mêmes.",
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