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Full Idea
We have no power to prevent ourselves being born: but we can rectify this error - for sometimes it is an error.
Gist of Idea
Sometimes it is an error to have been born - but we can rectify it
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Twilight of the Idols [1889], 8.36)
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Twilight of the Idols and The Anti-Christ', ed/tr. Hollingdale,R.J. [Penguin 1972], p.88