“It is too bad! Always the old story! When a man has finished building his house, he finds that he has learnt unawares something which he ought absolutely to have known–before he began to build. The eternal, fatal, ‘Too late!’ The melancholia of everything completed!”
—Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
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Quoted in The Heretic’s Handbook of Quotations
Sharp and Pointed 