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>I wonder how a conversation between the two would have gone.

Some writers have attempted something along these lines.

>Therese-Nietzsche dialogue
http://www.plaything.co.uk/gallagher/TerNietSpir.html

N: You are exactly the kind of person I despise - just a sick young woman with illusions of sanctity, false to the point of innocence.
T: I'm not afraid of your contempt. At least not for myself. Perhaps I am afraid of it for you. What does it do to you, this constantly destructive passion of yours?
N: I am not destructive. My passion is to live a huge yes. But there is so much rubbish in the way. I hate cramped and small lives. My vocation is to disturb them.
T: I too have a mission. My small life wants to be a huge yes. And certainly, there is rubbish around, even in the spiritual piety of my convent.
N: A temple to an escapist "no" to life.
T: Even you have to say a small "no" - to make space for your bigger "yes". My mission is to awaken the world to the call of love.
N: And how will they hear the alarm clock? Are you writing explosive pages like I am?
T: Perhaps yes. I am writing about myself and about the littleness and the darkness of love, even the terrible darkness of God. You have not seen my pages any more than I have seen yours.
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St. Therese of Lisieux: Nietzsche is My Brother: A Play by Bridget Edman, O.C.D.
>Both Thérèse of Lisieux and her contemporary, Friedrich Nietzsche, grappled in their own way with the issues of nihilism and atheism. For Thérèse, her struggles in faith led to a deepening trust and surrender to God in the face of apparent nothingness. The philosopher Nietzsche's antipathy to Christianity and religious faith in general made him a key architect of the Culture of Death and a precursor of the Death of God movement. This book, crafted as a dramatic dialogue between the young Carmelite and the philosopher, reflects the church's efforts to understand, listen to, and dialogue with those usually considered afar.
>Nietzsche Is My Brother is the result of the author s own personal religious quest, which led her to the Catholic Church and eventually to enter Carmel in South Africa as a cloistered nun. The book won first prize in the International Competition for Religious Drama.
https://www.amazon.com/St-Therese-Lisieux-Nietzsche-C-D/dp/0935216790

See also:
>How would the conversation go if Frederich Nietzsche met St. Thérèse of Lisieux?
https://www.catholiceducation.org/en/religion-and-philosophy/philosophy/how-would-the-conversation-go-if-frederich-nietzsche-met-st-therese-of-lisieux.html

>A Dialogue Between Therese and Nietzsche
https://thetablet.org/a-dialogue-between-therese-and-nietzsche/

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