Nietzsche spent the winter of 1883 walking up the cliff to Èze every day. He said the path composed parts of Zarathustra. The path is still there.
Friedrich Nietzsche spent the winter of 1883 in Èze-Bord-de-Mer, the lower village by the water. Each day he climbed the steep stone path up the cliff to the medieval village 427 meters above the Mediterranean — and on those walks, he later said, he composed parts of Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The path is still there. It's still steep. It still takes an hour. And at the top, when you come around the last switchback and the village walls finally show themselves, there is a moment when you understand exactly why a man would walk three hours a day to feel that particular silence.
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