A small white picket gate ajar before a gray felt cloud, with a magenta feather drifting outside on a sky-blue background.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

A wry twist on the afterlife: if heaven is populated only by the well-behaved, then everyone with an interesting streak must be elsewhere. It suggests that virtue can be dull and that the more colorful characters are the ones who didn't make it in.

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